How to setup mini.completion and mini.snippets with friendly-snippets

[DarthMooMancer]

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Hello,
I have looked at the documentation and the help pages, front and back. I cant find anything on how to setup mini.snippets with friendly-snippets. Everything in the documentation is on custom snippets. Another question is how to set it all up with nvim-lspconfig/mason-lsp if possible. Any help would be nice.

[echasnovski]

Hi!

Here is a suggested way to set up 'mini.snippets' so that it works with 'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets' (which is mentioned there explicitly; findable by searching for 'friendly-snippets').

Setting up 'mini.snippets' + 'mini.completion' in a way that snippets loaded by 'mini.snippets' are shown in 'mini.completion' is not yet supported. See #1647 for more details.

Another question is how to set it all up with nvim-lspconfig/mason-lsp if possible.

Those two are not needed for 'mini.snippets'. For 'mini.completion' they only need to be used to attach correct LSP server to a correct buffer. As this is their primary use cases ('mason.nvim' can install those servers, 'nvim-lspconfig' can attach correct server to buffer), reading their documentation should be enough. After that, regular require('mini.completion').setup() should respect attached LSP and ask it for completion items.

Hope this helps.

[DarthMooMancer]

The link you gave gives examples of if you have custom .json files. Below is the part that mentions friendly-snippets. Do I need to call the with the gen_loader.from_file with the location to the friendly snippets language or is there a way to easily use friendly-snippets without defining each.

Create language snippets manually (by creating and populating
'$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/snippets/lua.json' file) or by installing dedicated
snippet collection plugin (like 'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets').

[echasnovski]

... is there a way to easily use friendly-snippets without defining each.

Yes, by using gen_loader.from_lang(), as described earlier. This will automatically check for 'snippets/' directory in paths from 'runtimepath' (which would include both user's config, its 'after/' directory, and directory for installed 'friendly-snippets') and load files that match current language (by default following this approach). This whole proces which is designed to be compatible with 'friendly-snippets' and works for majority of languages (some snippets are not stored under language directory but "framework" directories; those should be accounted for manually).