Are multiple snippets with the same prefix supported?

[adrian5]

I have the following snippets defined:

"doc": {
  "prefix": ["doc"],
  "body": ["{{< doc \"${1:file}\" >}} $0"],
  "description": "variant 1"
},
"doc (full)": {
  "prefix": ["doc"],
  "body": ["{{< doc \"${1:file}#${2:anchor}\" \"${3:link-text}\" >}} $0"],
  "description": "variant 2"
}

But no matter which one I select in the context menu, I always end up getting variant 1 (in my buffer). If I delete variant 1 from above snippet file, I can use the remaining variant 2 just fine.

Since there aren't many examples in the doc, I'm not sure if this is supported yet.

I'm using vim-vsnip with completion-nvim.

[hrsh7th]

It's disabled intentinally but I can add the flag for it.

[adrian5]

I see, I wasn't sure if it was some issue in conjunction with my particular completion plugin. Knowing that it wasn't a misconfiguration on my part is helpful already, thought having that as a feature would certainly be nice!

[hrsh7th]

Sorry. It is a my misunderstanding.

In vim-vsnip, it will treat duplicated prefix items in vsnip#get_conplete_items().
But conpletion-nvim does not use it.
So when we solve it, we should fix completion-nvim.

[adrian5]

Ok, I take it this isn't straight forward to implement because completion-nvim needs to handle multiple sources gracefully, where vim-vsnip could be one among many?

[hrsh7th]

I will look into it if I have a time.

[adrian5]

Ok, thanks!

[hrsh7th]

@adrian5 You can use it maybe nvim-lua/completion-nvim#326 (comment)

[adrian5]

Do you think those few changes can solve my problem? What would the setting with vsnip be? (I'm an end-user, not a developer)

let g:completion_items_duplicate = {'vim-vsnip': 0}   " like this?

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In case there was a misunderstanding, my problem is that:

"a (first)": {
  "prefix": ["a"],
  "body": "a1",
},
"a (second)": {
  "prefix": ["a"],
  "body": "a2"
}

Gives me a menu that does the following:

a vim-vsnip a (first)    → a1 ✓ 
a vim-vsnip a (second)   → a1 ❌

Instead of:

a vim-vsnip a (first)    → a1 ✓ 
a vim-vsnip a (second)   → a2 ✓ 

[hrsh7th]

Sorry! I was misunderstood your mean.

we should fix completion-nvim to solve this.
I will create PR for completion-nvim

[hrsh7th]

Upstream PR has merged!
If you don't get correct result, please re-open this issue.

[adrian5]

Appears to work fine now, thank you very much!