Snippet trigger max length about kakoune-snippets HOT 4 CLOSED

Allow me to point you to the FAQ.
I considered that triggers would generally be short so that they can be typed easily. What kind of triggers do you want to use?

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I completely missed out that section on the FAQ, sorry.
Personally, I like triggers a bit more verbose than small chain of letters meaning something.
A simple example should be function instead of fun or other similar stuff. I do use longer triggers but they are way too personal and I don't think they are a good example.

What I did for my use case is change the h6hs<ret> for h<a-a><a-w>s<ret>. That allows to check the full word instead of a pre defined length.
It works for me since I don't use spaces but I'm not really experienced with kakoune and I'm not sure if it might break something else.

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It works for me since I don't use spaces but I'm not really experienced with kakoune and I'm not sure if it might break something else.

I'm not sure if triggers should (or could) contain spaces

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I'm not sure if triggers should (or could) contain spaces

I used to think they should be restricted to alphanumeric, but then the topic of a /* trigger came up and I've revised my stance to accept any trigger. Spaces should work, currently. Newlines too, if you're feeling particularly adventurous.

As you've observed, <a-a><a-w> won't work if triggers contain spaces. The 6h is kind of a compromise to work with any kind of triggers, with the annoying arbitrary max length.
Ideally we would do an arbitrary reverse search anchored to the current selection, but it's not possible to do efficiently in kakoune currently.

I'll raise it to 20 for now, surely that will be enough.

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