Wanted some input on a rough outline of a snippet plugin

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each language would have multiple sets of snippets, a base set, which is always loaded, and conditional sets which are either user specified or loaded if certain snippet is triggered( for example import opencv would load opencv related snippets into the trie(or set of contextual tries) for that window.

That’s an awesome feature !

@skewballfox

Part of the reason I’m doing the majority of the work in python, besides being turing complete, is because I’m still not comfortable with the internal kakoune stuff. I don’t know what would be simpler(in terms of writing) or more performant to handle via kakoune itself. based on the rough sketch of the execution, what do you think that kakoune should handle?

That’s normal, kakoune want’s you to do most of the job outside kakoune. Kakoune just give you the minial glue to connect with external script.

How would I go about setting priority for completion items?

Idk myself, but you might want to check this post:

Intro to Kakoune completers

One of the best things about Kakoune is how eager it is to provide hints and completions at every opportunity; another one is how easy it is to write your own completion plugins. Unfortunately, although the documentation does contain pretty much everything you need to know, it takes some effort to collect the puzzle-pieces and figure out how to put them together. To help you write your first completion plugin, I’ve written an article that walks you through each step of the process, explaining w…

For the moment the only maintained kakoune snippets plugin is GitHub - alexherbo2/snippet.kak: Snippets integration for Kakoune ( I use it, it work well ) maybe you want to build on top of that. ( you can go back a few commit if you want an even more simple plugin to start from )