Vim: snipMate plug-in does not trigger snippet completion

Question

Vim is installed at /usr/share/vim.

All snipMate's folders were added to this category in existing folders (after, autoload, plugin, snippets, etc.) accordingly.

From the documentation file:

For instance, to change the trigger
key to CTRL-J, just change this:

ino <tab> <c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr> 
snor <tab> <esc>i<right><c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>

to this: 
ino <c-j> <c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>  
snor <c-j> <esc>i<right><c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>

I tried this as well - the same result. When I try to trigger snippet match it only adds a tab (4 spaces, accordingly to my .vimrc).

P.S. filetype plugin indent on.

Updated:

cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.10

:inoremap

i  <C-B>       * <C-R>=TriggerSnippet()<CR>

:snoremap

s  <C-B>       * <Esc>i<Right><C-R>=TriggerSnippet()<CR>

How can I fix this?

What do you get when you enter ':inoremap'? How about ':snoremap'? Does it show these mappings? — Conspicuous Compiler, Dec 14 '09 at 11:11
2Peter: added. 2 Conspicuous Compiler: yes, it shows these mappings but when you use it - only additional 4 spaces have been added. Any ideas? — BinaryButterfly, Dec 14 '09 at 14:09
Are you running in paste mode (no mappings would work). try :set nopaste — michael, Dec 15 '09 at 05:51
2michael: whey I switch to :set nopaste, this shortcut add "^B" instead of 4 spaces. What can it be? — BinaryButterfly, Dec 15 '09 at 05:59
I'm confused - what key combination do you want to use to trigger snipMate? Have you changed after/plugin/snipMate.vim? — dsummersl, Mar 10 '10 at 04:27

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '11 at 20:59

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I solved this problem by removing the 'set paste' entry on .vimrc

answered Apr 04 '11 at 20:59

Karlisson

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I do have a mapping for switching the paste mode, but I did not think of that as a suspect until I saw your post. Thanks. – Pif Jun 13 '12 at 08:17
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Thanks Karlisson! That saved me a real headache. To see if paste is the problem, just run :set nopaste from within vi and then see if snipMate's completion starts working. Yay :) – Declan McGrath Apr 07 '13 at 12:16
Ok, but is there a way to get snipMate working with set paste? – justin Jul 14 '13 at 19:55
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@justin there's a bug report https://code.google.com/p/snipmate/issues/detail?id=111 – Andre Miras Jan 23 '14 at 10:45
If it still doesn't work for someone try - set nopaste – whitesiroi Aug 16 '15 at 11:38

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '10 at 14:17

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I had a problem with snipMate, it wasn't working, so I came across with Issue 66 in their Issue Tracker:

source ~/.vim/after/plugin/snipMate.vim

answered Jun 09 '10 at 14:17

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS

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`source $VIMRUNTIME/after/plugin/snipMate.vim` at the end of file C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73\plugin\snipMate.vim worked on Windows 7 – qmmr Jul 31 '12 at 10:54
@PrayagUpd I'm using newer versions of vim and snipmate, the problem disappeared. Remember that the `source` command has to be called inside a vimrc or gvimrc file, no in terminal. – Somebody still uses you MS-DOS Mar 20 '14 at 01:57
I am using gVim 7.4 on Windows. Adding this line works, but everytime I open a file I need to do `:BundleInstall` first, otherwise I get an error telling me that `tlib` is missing. – A.W. Mar 31 '14 at 16:53
@Guus since tlib is a dependency, you can try to call `source` to it's plugin file as well. I'm not having this problem so I can't test for you... :/ – Somebody still uses you MS-DOS Apr 09 '14 at 05:08
@SomebodystillusesyouMS-DOS I switched from Vundle to Pathogen. And installing Snipmate using Pathogen works for me right away. Thanks for the suggestion. – A.W. Apr 09 '14 at 08:49

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 26 '16 at 12:49

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In my case, I experienced the same thing. SnipMate autocomplete does not work. One of the reasons is the is used by other plugin. Typing :verbose imap <Tab> will show you which plugin that utilizes the key and cause the conflict. You can either comment out the plugin in .vimrc or you can change it to use another key.

answered Jul 26 '16 at 12:49

goddar

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youcompleteme plugin occupied the tab key, thanks a lot. – Dmitrii Dec 09 '16 at 11:01

Vim: snipMate plug-in does not trigger snippet completion

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