Nyxt Built In Hackable Snippets

Nyxt Ideas
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What do people think of having snippets in nyxt?

Like if our browsing habits were not bad enough now I want to supercharge them with snippets.

I was inspired a bit by using tempel recently: GitHub - minad/tempel: TempEl - Simple templates for Emacs

Does it makes sense to have snippets in the minibuffer or elsewhere in nyxt?

This is mostly a general idea atm. I’m curious what the community thinks of concretizing this idea a bit or sharing ideas around ways this might be implemented given we were to pursue such a thing.

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We have snippets for usage inside text areas but not in the minibuffer or in commands. That’s a fascinating concept I would like to meditate on. Thanks for bringing this up!

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Is there docs for the current snippet feature in nyxt?

Not sure why I’m so bad at finding docs heh

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We have snippets for usage inside text areas

Are we talking about the same thing? Snippets as in, Emacs' yasnippet or TextMate's snippets or this TempEl package I haven't seen before now.

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Well, we have a similar thing already: Autofills. The shortcomings of those are:

  • they don’t (yet) have a keybinging in prompt-buffer,
  • there’s no easy syntax for prompting, you’d have to do something like
(make-instance
   #+nyxt-2 'nyxt:autofill
   #+nyxt-3 'nyxt/autofill-mode:autofill
   :name "Debug"
   :fill (lambda () (format nil "Hello, ~a" (prompt1 :prompt "What's your name?" :sources 'prompter:raw-source)))))

but it should be possible to hack up, e.g., an YASnippet alternative on top of those.