friendly-snippets should work out of the box, right?

[ddogfoodd]

I am not getting snippet completions and am wondering why.
Just to make sure I understood correctly, friendly-snippets should be enabled and suggested by default right? So when I create let's say a Python file and type enc blink should suggest the snippet as seen in friendly-snippets WIki.

Or do I have to add "snippets" to sources or snippets.preset = "default" or anything to the blink config?
Do I have to install any other snippet plugin e.g. luasnip for snippets to appear?

If it should work without any extra config and additional plugins (except friendly-snippets), there might be a problem with loading friendly-snippets on NixOS I assume.

[Z1NGOD]

I just fixed the issue for myself, what you need to do Is create a file for the luasnip plugin, then load the friendly-snippets from there. the load times for the snippets are a little slow because of it now, but it's still better than the default.
the luasnip file:

return {
  "L3MON4D3/LuaSnip",
  version = "*",
  build = "make install_jsregexp",
  dependencies = { "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets" },
  config = function()
    require("luasnip.loaders.from_vscode").lazy_load("friendly-snippets")
  end,
}

and type something like this in the snippets section:

    snippets = {
      preset = "luasnip",
      expand = function(snippet)
        require("luasnip").lsp_expand(snippet)
      end,
      active = function(filter)
        if filter and filter.direction then
          return require("luasnip").jumpable(filter.direction)
        end
        return require("luasnip").in_snippet()
      end,
      jump = function(direction)
        require("luasnip").jump(direction)
      end,
    },

you can check the full neovim config in my dot-files

[ddogfoodd]

Thanks, that sounds like a workaround though, it's not supposed to work like that or at least can be simplified, right?

[Z1NGOD]

Thanks, that sounds like a workaround though, it's not supposed to work like that or at least can be simplified, right?

Welp, you can do all that in the blink.cmp file, but I prefer to do the luasnip as a separate plugin, so when I want to configure it deeper I can do it separately from the blink.cmp

[krovuxdev]

@ddogfoodd The link in the friendly-snippets Wiki seems outdated. I found the base.json file from 2021 here, but it has since been removed. The enc snippet is no longer present in the current friendly-snippets Python file.

To resolve this, you can copy the snippet from the old base.json file and add it to your configuration in nvim/snippets/python.json to make the enc snippet available again. I hope this helps!

[ddogfoodd]

Thanks for the info, I just used this one as an example but it's good to know I was testing snippet suggestion with one that isn't there anymore! I will check the recent file and keep testing with one of them.

[ddogfoodd]

I found my problem, it is unrelated to blink-cmp. Instead it is related to an experimental performance option for Nixvim (Neovim via Nix), see this error: nix-community/nixvim#2746.

Now that snippets work for me, I can confirm that friendly-snippets should work without any extra config of blink-cmp.