Ultisnips: Custom snippets doesn't work

[notaduck]

It seems that my own snippets added with UtilSnipsEdit doesn't work, however snippets from hpnza/vim-snippets works just fine.

• NeoVim => 0.2.2
• Plugin manager => vim-plug

pice of init.vim:

 " UtilSnips {{{

let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories = ['~/.vim/UltiSnips', 'UltiSnips']

 " Trigger configuration. Do not use <tab> if you use https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe.

let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<a-tab>"
let g:UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger="<c-b>"
let g:UltiSnipsJumpBackwardTrigger="<c-z>"

" If you want :UltiSnipsEdit to split your window.
let g:UltiSnipsEditSplit="vertical"

    " }}}

$ ls UltiSnips/
xml.snippets

$ cat xml.snippets 
snippet tagc "description"
<OSMWayType> $1 </OSMWayType>
$0 

According to me it looks like everything should be okay, however if I type tagc in a .xml file and A-tab nothing happends.

[andreyorst]

I'm expiriencing the same issue. For two weeks already.
I've installed ultisnips, created some snippets, and nothing happened. I've double checked documentation, and even vimcasts, on youtube, but still nothing. I already started to think that Ultisnips isn't workiing at all, until I've installed honza/vim-snippets, and ultisnips started to work with them, but not with my own snippets.

I'm using neovim from master branch with Vundle as a plugin manager.

I have pretty huge config for ultisnips, so I'll post a link to it, rather then copypaste it here.

This also can be reproduced with minimal init.vim containing only Ultisnips plugin and theese recomendations.

With this minimal.vim I can use hpnza/vim-snippets, but can't use snippets created with :UltiSnipsEdit

[andreyorst]

@notaduck I guess the project is dead or unmaintained. Last commit 423f264 was on Jun 2017, almost a year. As stated in 3.0 release notes, current maintainer is @seletskiy, but it was back in 2015.

As a quick solution for this issue, I can recommend adding your own snippets directly into honza/vim-snippets plugin files, it's not great solution, but it works, at last.

[andreyorst]

@notaduck Or as a better solution, you can symlink your ft.snippet file to path/to/honza's/plugin/vim-snippets/UltiSnips/ as ft_my.snippets. It will work too. However it iis still a silly workaround.

[bartekb81]

I had a similar issue... I took a look at the source code (bundle/ultisnips/pythonx/UltiSnips/snippet/source/file/ultisnips.py) and there was nothing suspicious there. And then I thought about replacing the tilde in the path with full path (and adjust the case of 'UltiSnips' suffix):

let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories = ['/home/bartek/.vim/ultisnips']

it helped, my custom snippets are loading now.

[andreyorst]

indeed. It works. Strange. I thought I've tried that. However ~/ should also work, because :UltiSnipsEdit opend file corectly.

I mean having absolute path is good, however I use same neovim config across several machines, and all of them have different usernames, wich involves addition configuration on every of them.

os.path.expanduser() should be used somwhere.

[notaduck]

Thanks guys! using the absolute path worked for me as well!
However I do belive ~/ should work as @andreyorst says

[pingsoli]

I found the Ultisnips works perfectly when youcompleteme enabled.

I don't know what happened ?

[Gluzifer]

For me UltiSnips will find my custom snippets only if I specify the whole path in for :UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories.
However for :UltiSnipsSnippetsDir using ~/ works fine for me.

So it now looks someting like this in my (nvim) config:

let g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir = '~/myUltiSnips/'
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=["/home/username/myUltiSnips", "UltiSnips"]

[aranmohyeddin]

I have no idea what is going on. none of these solutions worked for me then at some point it started working. maybe after I added this: let g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir = '~/myUltiSnips/' but then I removed every config line! and it's still working even after a restart.

[mar-muel]

@aranmohyeddin The exact same thing happened to me. I'm not claiming to fully understand what's going on but what eventually worked for me was to remove the g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir option and just add

let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=[$HOME.'/myUltiSnips', 'UltiSnips']

Also I made my first snippet not contain any interpreted code and made it very simple (however, I'm not sure if that made a difference in the end).

Hope this helps whoever comes across this!

[SirVer]

For everybody being confused in this thread, please go and read How snippets are loaded: https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips/blob/master/doc/UltiSnips.txt#L535. Unfortunately, the semantics of g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir and g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories are not a bit intertwined and convoluted, but it is all spelled out there.

I still think #1085 makes sense.

[solomonxie]

My approach is like:

let $HOME = expand('~')
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir = $HOME."~/.vim/mysnippets"
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=[$HOME.'/.vim/mysnippets']

Notice that, it will NOT work if you expand & assign at the same time:

let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=[expand('/.vim/mysnippets')]