Sublime-snippet tabtrigger is behaving differently than sublime-completions trigger

[Asuza]

When I create a trigger with periods in a *.sublime-completions file, those completions show up in the auto-complete list even if I only type part of the trigger.

For example, this completion:

{ "trigger": "Ext.Array.each", "contents": "this is a test" }

Will show up even if I only type “Array” or “each”.

But when I do the same thing in a snippet, using the following:

<tabTrigger>Ext.Array.each</tabTrigger>

It shows when I type “Ext”. If I then type a period, it’s gone from the autocomplete list, and it never shows up if I type “Array” or “each”.

Question:
How can I get the behavior of the *.sublime-completions file but still be able to use snippets so I can write multi-line completions without a headache?

[kingkeith]

I guess it is due to the way autocomplete handles snippets with tab triggers that contain word separator characters…

[rppn]

See also:

• https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/labels/C%3A%20Snippets
• https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/labels/C%3A%20Completions

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Maybe John and/or Will will fix this. There’ve been a few related issues for a long time.

[Asuza]

Thanks for the replies. I suppose I’m going to have to wait on more ST3 releases. I might end up building a “snippet to completion” script so I can maintain long snippets easily while still have them always show up in the auto-complete list, or look into plugins that enhance auto-completion.

[kingkeith]

I had a quick go at writing a generic plugin here to always show completions for snippet tab triggers:

I want all my snippets to open in an "autocomplete" list after typing custom code (3 brackets - [[[ )

Here is a generic solution that will work with your [[[ tab trigger prefix to show auto completions: (It is Python code, to be saved as a plugin with a .py extension in your Packages/User folder) import sublime, sublime_plugin from xml.etree import ElementTree class AutoCompleteSnippetTriggersListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener): def on_query_completions(self, view, prefix, locations): snippets = sublime.find_resources('*.sublime-snippet') completions = [] word_s…

[Asuza]

Ah, I actually saw that post while I was researching auto-complete! Though, I don’t know Python and didn’t take the time to try to understand the block of code at the time. It looks like a good starting point, though. Thanks!