The latex dots snippet prevents one from typing paragraphs.

[mashtonian]

When writing a large amount of text, multiple paragraphs, and having auto-completion enabled in your snippet engine, the 'dots' snippet intercedes when finishing a paragraph. The end of paragraph one is a '.' followed by 'Enter', which triggers the snippet insertion of '\dots'.

[OkelleyDevelopment]

Hi @mashtonian, I double checked and agree this should be changed to avoid the collision.

Ref: ./snippets/latex.json snippet:

    "etc": {
        "prefix": "...",
        "body": "\\dots",
        "description": "\\dots"
    },

Now the question to answer is: what would be a better prefix? I'm considering dots or perhaps we simply remove the snippet entirely. :thinking:

[mashtonian]

Great. Thanks.

What about a pair of dots followed by enter, as opposed to a single one?

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, 06:25 OkelleyDevelopment, @.***> wrote:

Hi @mashtonian https://github.com/mashtonian, I double checked and agree this should be changed to avoid the collision.

Ref: ./snippets/latex.json snippet:

"etc": {
    "prefix": "...",
    "body": "\\dots",
    "description": "\\dots"
},

Now the question to answer is: what would be a better prefix? I'm considering dots or perhaps we simply remove the snippet entirely. 🤔

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[JFMarten]

Hi, any progress on this topic? I just stumbled across this behavior.

[OkelleyDevelopment]

Hi @JFMarten and @mashtonian, I've tried the .. method and (to no surprise) it didn't provide any different behavior. The issue we're encountering is that the snippet engine is matching on . (the first dot of the three) and so when you enter to the next line it's selecting it.

This leads me to possible "fixes"

• We try to update our snippet engines to match longer selections
• We update the snippet to purely alphabetical prefixes (so this could become dots)

Thoughts or objections? Feel free to raise a PR too (not trying to gatekeep a fix :sweat_smile: )

[surmish]

Not sure why snippets exist for 1 word commands in the first place. Wouldn't this just spam the completion menu, snippets shouldn't be used as a language reference.