evesdropper / luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim

A set of preconfigured snippets for LaTeX for the snippet engine LuaSnip.

LuaSnip-LaTeX-Snippets

A set of preconfigured snippets for LaTeX for the snippet engine LuaSnip.

⚠️ Note: My implementation is based on VimTeX for a portion of the functionality; see the acknowledgements section for alternatives if VimTeX is not an option. I'm also hoping to adopt treesitter support later on, as mentioned a while ago in this issue.

luasnip-latex-snippets.mp4

Idea

I’ve created my share of smart snippets for LaTeX, and it might be nice to provide some solid defaults for people using snippets out of the box. Despite this, I would probably recommend others to make their own snippets if they can as the process is far more enjoyable and rewarding. But someone can tell me the same about creating a Neovim plugin while I’m sorely tempted to pay someone off to do the work for me because I really can’t deal with the development process, so do what makes you happy, I guess.

Installation

Use the package manager of your choice, or don't.

Lazy.nvim

{
    "evesdropper/luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim",
},

Packer.nvim

use {
    "evesdropper/luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim",
},

Snippets

See snippets.md for the time being.

Development Plans

Of course, add more snippets. Ideally would also like to expand this to more languages, allow for better user experience in the future; feel free to make a PR to help contribute your own ideas.

Acknowledgements

Some similar snippet resources:

• friendly-snippets
• LuaSnip-snippets.nvim
• luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim (Same repo name, different author/snippets)
• Gilles Castel's LaTeX Snippets

Additionally, I would like to thank Max Mehta for bringing up the idea of creating this plugin and the creator of LuaSnip, L3MON4D3, for helping me debug some of the early stages of the plugin. There are also functions scattered throughout the code which are not made by me, so I've posted acknowledgements for those in the comments of the code.

luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim's Issues

Using the Snippets in markdown files

Is there any way to make the snippets work in markdown files like they did in here. I use obsidian to take notes so i only use "$$math$$" in the markdown files. I tried to understand how it works but unfortunately im not experienced with custom snippets

Plug in not working as expected

So i installed this plugin plus all the following:

    ● alpha-nvim 0.59ms 
    ● bufferline.nvim 0.26ms 
    ● cmp-nvim-lsp 0.21ms 
    ● cmp_luasnip 0.16ms 
    ● completion-nvim 0.38ms 
    ● impatient.nvim 0.32ms 
    ● indent-blankline.nvim 0.25ms 
    ● kanagawa.nvim 0.16ms 
    ● lazy.nvim 2.35ms  init.lua
    ● lspkind-nvim 0.04ms 
    ● lspsaga.nvim 0.39ms 
    ● lualine.nvim 0.35ms  
    ● LuaSnip 2.83ms  luasnip.loaders.from_lua  luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim
    ● luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim 4.34ms 
    ● markdown-preview.nvim 0.47ms  
    ● nerdcommenter 1.25ms  
    ● nvim-autopairs 0.22ms  
    ● nvim-cmp 1.17ms  
    ● nvim-colorizer.lua 0.09ms 
    ● nvim-lspconfig 4.08ms 
    ● nvim-tree.lua 0.28ms 
    ● nvim-treesitter 3.48ms  
    ● nvim-web-devicons 0.17ms  bufferline.nvim
    ● plenary.nvim 0.22ms  telescope.nvim
    ● sniprun 1.08ms 
    ● symbols-outline.nvim 0.25ms
    ● telescope.nvim 0.77ms 
    ● tex-conceal.vim 0.2ms 
    ● vimtex 0.29ms 
    ● yuck.vim 0.22ms 

and my issue is that every time I open a .tex file, the snippets dont appear. I also have lsp+texlab configured, so i dont know how the issue appears.

Please update the README!

I just wasted half an hour battling with strange errors whenever I wanted to write anything in a .tex file. Then I read the file listing the snippets and saw that the vimtex plugin is needed for most things to work. For the love of god, please mention this in your README, and put vimtex as a dependency in the code snippet showing how to install this plugin. Not only is this not visible at first glance (and it should be), but the file which contains this crucial information isn't even marked as documentation!

Auto snippet matches alpha and \alpha

Hey, just wanted to say I really appreciate this plugin. In math mode, typing alpha turns into \alpha and typing \alpha turns into \\alpha. Is this intended? I would expect typing \alpha to not trigger the snippet and return \alpha (unaffected). This issue is not noticed with \angle, for example.

bmat expands before I can set condition