Other ways to load LSP snippets?

[dcompoze]

I'm able to define LSP snippets inside of a languages.toml file like so:

[language.config.completion.snippets.custom.foo]
prefix = ["foo"]
body = ["foo!($0)"]
description = "Foo function call"
requires = "std::foo::bar"
scope = "expr"

This makes the snippet show up as part of auto-completion in the editor.

However, it's quite cumbersome to maintain a large list of snippets inside of a single languages.toml configuration file, especially when the snippets are large (e.g. lots of boilerplate for HTML).

VSCode has a way of loading snippets from ~/.config/VSCode/User/snippets/*.json but I'm not aware of Helix doing anything similar.

Also, to my understanding, most language servers don't provide a way to independently load global configuration outside of the editor (e.g. something like ~/.rust-analyzer/snippets.json), since the LSP client is supposed to load and provide the configuration to the language server, including any custom snippets.

Hence, the only option seems to be to use the languages.toml file to provide custom configuration to the language server - together with the custom snippets.

Are there other ways of loading LSP snippets other than specifying them inside of the languages.toml file as shown above (ideally each snippet would be in a separate file)?

[kirawi]

You're probably looking for #395 which also suggests a snippets manager within Helix.

[masriomarm]

how do you jump between placeholders while in snippet? @dcompoze

[pascalkuthe]

not yet implemented

[quantonganh]

#395 (comment)

[jerabaul29]

@dcompoze so you mean that you put this in the config of a separate lsp that provides the snippets, is my understanding correct? Curious: which snippet lsp do you use?

[erasin]

hx-lsp support vscode snippets.