minisnippets not taking from snippets from non default folder

[marmal88]

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Module(s)

mini.snippets

Question

I've been trying to mini-snippets to read from the directory called ~/.config/nvim/lua/snippets, instead of the default location (The default location also did not work for me). I am unsure if my nonstandard format for directory is the issue.

I have tried the following

• move snippets folder to ~/.config/nvim/snippets location
• change the directory using snippets_dir as below

Neither worked. I am using vim.pack as the package manager and neovim v0.12.0 nightly.

The below here is my file for mini-snippets.lua which i import into my settings.lua file

local snippets = require('mini.snippets')
local snippets_dir = vim.fn.stdpath('config') .. '/lua/snippets'
return require('mini.snippets').setup({
	snippets.gen_loader.from_file( snippets_dir .. '/global.json'),
	snippets.gen_loader.from_lang( { path = snippets_dir }),
	mappings = {
		expand = "<C-k>",
		jump_next = "<C-j>",
		jump_prev = "<C-n>",
		stop = "<C-c>",
	},
})

# Directory layout for my repo
.
├── init.vim                     # using init.vim for vim only settings
├── lua
 │   ├── lsp
 │   ├── plugins
 │   └── settings.lua            # equivalent of init.lua
├── nvim-pack-lock.json
└── snippets
    ├── global.json               # globals.json is as per provided in your documentation.
    ├── lua.json
    └── python.json

Unsure if this affects anything but i am using blinkcmp

# Using blink.cmp using the mini_snippets as preset
require('blink.cmp').setup({
	sources = { default = { 'lsp', 'path', 'snippets', 'buffer' }, },
	snippets = { preset = 'mini_snippets' },

The current error message i am getting is rather cryptic

(mini.snippets) No snippets in context:
{
    buf_id =1
    lang = "lua"
}

Any idea or next steps would be really appreciated!!

[echasnovski]

There is local snippets_dir = vim.fn.stdpath('config') .. '/lua/snippets' line in the code, but the directory layout show that 'snippets/' is top directory in the config (i.e. `stdpath('config') .. '/snippets'). Would you mind checking where is the typo here?

But nevertheless, the issue seems to be that custom snippets should be configured inside config.snippets directory, not top level config. Here is the basic example. So assuming the directory layout is correct (i.e. there is '~/.config/nvim/snippets'), the following should work:

local snippets = require('mini.snippets')
return require('mini.snippets').setup({
  snippets = {
    snippets.gen_loader.from_file(vim.fn.stdpath('config') .. '/snippets/global.json'),
    snippets.gen_loader.from_lang(),
  },
  mappings = {
    expand = '<C-k>',
    jump_next = '<C-j>',
    jump_prev = '<C-n>',
    stop = '<C-c>',
  },
})

[echasnovski]

Unsure if this affects anything but i am using blinkcmp

In theory this should only affect that 'mini.snippets' is used to insert a snippet when 'blink.cmp' asks it to. If I remember correctly, 'blink.cmp' itself takes care of loading and managing snippets.

The above solution should work, for example, when pressing <C-k> inside a Lua file: snippets from both 'global.json' and 'lua.json' should be found and shown via vim.ui.select().

[marmal88]

Apologies for the typo. Snippets were in the top location ~/.config/nvim/snippets

Thank you very much this works!