From 6491093ae38166e1427aeac799a7ab5b6b036e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Nehrke <felix@nehrke.info>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:39:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically apply skeleton snippets to certain filetypes if
 configured

---
 .config/nvim/lua/config/defaults.lua   | 10 ++++++++++
 .config/nvim/lua/plugins/luasnip.lua   | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .config/nvim/snippets/vimwiki.snippets | 14 +++++++++++++
 .config/nvim/snippets/vue.snippets     |  6 +++---
 4 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .config/nvim/snippets/vimwiki.snippets

diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/config/defaults.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/config/defaults.lua
index 0353747..993d74e 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/lua/config/defaults.lua
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/config/defaults.lua
@@ -126,3 +126,13 @@ vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
 		vim.opt_local.foldmethod = "marker"
 	end,
 })
+-- snippets
+vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
+	pattern = "snippets",
+	group = configgroup,
+	callback = function()
+		vim.opt_local.expandtab = false
+		vim.opt_local.shiftwidth = 2
+		vim.opt_local.tabstop = 4
+	end,
+})
diff --git a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/luasnip.lua b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/luasnip.lua
index 0117a2f..7d06e87 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/luasnip.lua
+++ b/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/luasnip.lua
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+-- idea stolen from: https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/42370
+local skelconfig = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('SKEL_CONFIG', { clear = true })
+vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({"BufRead", "BufNewFile"}, {
+	group = skelconfig,
+	callback = function()
+		-- another autocmd so it doesn't conflict 
+		-- with other plugins that like to insert text on file open
+		vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("VimEnter", {
+			group = skelconfig,
+			callback = function()
+				-- stop if buffer is not empty!
+				if vim.fn.line("$") ~= 1 or vim.fn.getline(1) ~= "" then
+					return
+				end
+				local ls = require('luasnip')
+				local snippets = ls.get_snippets(vim.bo.ft)
+				for _, snippet in ipairs(snippets) do
+					if snippet["name"] == "_skeleton" then
+						ls.snip_expand(snippet)
+						return true
+					end
+				end
+			end
+		})
+	end,
+})
+
 return {
 	"L3MON4D3/LuaSnip",
 	version = "v2.*", -- just because the docs mention it
diff --git a/.config/nvim/snippets/vimwiki.snippets b/.config/nvim/snippets/vimwiki.snippets
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c803157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/nvim/snippets/vimwiki.snippets
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+snippet _skeleton Create initial diary entry
+	= `strftime("%-d. %b")`: ${1:summary} =
+	%% `strftime("%Y-%m-%d")`
+
+	${0}
+
+snippet xdia Create initial diary entry
+	= `strftime("%-d. %b")`: ${1:summary} (xdia) =
+	%% `strftime("%Y-%m-%d")`
+
+	${0}
+
+snippet xtodo Create a new todo
+	* [ ] ${0}
diff --git a/.config/nvim/snippets/vue.snippets b/.config/nvim/snippets/vue.snippets
index 4aee951..68733b0 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/snippets/vue.snippets
+++ b/.config/nvim/snippets/vue.snippets
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-snippet xscript Create initial skeleton
+snippet _skeleton Create initial skeleton
 	<script setup lang="ts">
-	${1}
+	${0}${1}
 	</script>
 
 	<template>
-	  ${2:<div>$3</div>}
+	  <${2:div}>$3</$2>
 	</template>
 
 snippet xpagemeta Add page meta