Expansions inside snippets about kakoune-snippets HOT 4 CLOSED

My dark secret is that I've never actually used this plugin (in a real context), I made it to scratch an itch but then never integrated it into my workflow.
At the same time I don't really like the current design of some parts of this plugin, it's somewhat 'maximalist' and tries to do everything. I've made a branch where I stripped down the plugin to a state I like better, but there again I haven't taken the time to integrate it into my workflow. So I've not pulled the trigger of merging.
I guess I just don't need snippets that badly (or maybe I just don't know what I'm missing out on).

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Sounds like a nice idea. I think it would be possible by replacing this line by eval reg dquote '%arg{1}', which would 'force' another level of expansion. Of course that would mean quoting the arg, and having to escape the snippet syntax AND the kakoune syntax on top, which might be cumbersome when defining the snippets.
So all in all feasible but not trivial. Though I probably won't work on it, as I've stopped using this plugin in its current state.

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Oh, I understand, I'm taking a look at the code and seeing if I take the step to hack something together as indeed the nesting of
expansion make it complex to delegate the task as it would be better done by kakoune, may I ask what are you using in this plugin stead?

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hahahah very interseting situation of yours, well, I do not use the snippet functionality per se either, but I stole some commands of the plugin to make it easier to define other commands that just put a predefined text where I want, like creating templates for certain kind of files. Well I guess maybe I can stick to user defined commands, I'll check out that branch and maybe someday I will upload my take on the subject, thanks once again :).

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