Migrating from UltiSnips

This page collects various tips for UltiSnips who want to quickly migrate to LuaSnip. The aim is to have all the relevant information in the same place, so that UltiSnips users can quickly get started with LuaSnip. More advanced features of LuaSnip, such as Lua snippets, are not covered.

UltiSnips features that are currently not supported

• Evaluation using backticks (``) (DOC/LOADERS)

Install

Install the plugin following the README.

To load snippets in a format similar to UltiSnips' snippets, you want to use the SnipMate-like loader:

require("luasnip.loaders.from_snipmate").lazy_load()

By default, the snippets should be placed in a directory named snippets in your runtimepath (see :help runtimepath). You can also specify a custom path:

require("luasnip.loaders.from_snipmate").lazy_load( paths = { "./my-snippets" } })

Here ./ specifies a path relative to $MYVIMRC. See DOC/LOADERS for more information.