This isn't an official plugin reimplementation. I am not in any way affiliated with UltiSnips developer(s).

I needed this functionality in Vis, and UltiSnips seemed powerful and mature enough, and had plenty of templates available.

1. copy snippets.lua into your .config/vis/plugins directory

2. (optional) if you don't already have snippets, get them. You can clone https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets

3. in snippets.lua modify the snippetfiles value so that it points to the absolute path where you keep your UltiSnip snippets. Trailing slash is necessary

In insert mode, hit <C-j> to show vis-menu with all snippets found for the currently set syntax - it literally looks for a file in your path called <syntax>.lua. You can also pre-type the snippet tabtrigger that you're looking for.

When snippet is expanded, all of its tags will be added to the selection jumplist. You can use Vis motions g< and g> to navigate between them.

You can:

• get a list of snippets per syntax
• insert the snippet
• navigate around its anchor points

1. Multiple selections for same tag numbers (only figured out half an hour ago a solution to multiple selections)

1. python interpolations, date interpolations, etc etc etc

2. nested tags (correctly parsed, but not correctly inserted)

3. options

• Parsing of more complex snippets. Lpeg grammar for this is quite complex (I'm looking at you, nested tags feature)

• vis-menu for one or the other reason corrupts my terminal when invoked. This might be plugin doing something its not supposed to - but I don't know what. If you do, please PR. Mind you, dmenu has no such problems.

• who knows??? This was supposed to be few hours project max, ended up being a rabbit hole!

All of this, because muscle memory from vim made me remember I can't just insert {-# LANGUAGE ...#-} pragma via template.

And I didn't like that.

So I spent upwards of 15h writing this plugin.

Go figure.