I am missing additional meta fields in current snippets plug-in. Deletion of additional meta fields "Display Prefix", "Display Arguments" and "Display Postfix" is a HUGE step backward in the functionality. In previous version of snippets plug-in it was possible to create groups of similar snippets with single name "class" and additional comments using "Display Prefix", "Display Arguments" and "Display Postfix" meta fields (if one has snippets with similar keyword name but with slightly different functional purpose), e.g. : class X class X // but with my default constructor enhanced class X // but using inheritance from Y where class is in name, X is in arguments, enhanced is in prefix and comments are in postfix fields (or any other combination) and I used them intensively to add explanations what each snippet does exactly. Such named fields were visible in the code completion preview mode during typing in the name "class" and one was able to select readily the right one from the sublist. Now this all is gone and there is no way to add any visible comment to snippet. Moreover, one is forced to write such_ugly_and _different_names of snippets, because the only "name" field doesn't allow to add even spaces! class_X class_X_with_default_constructor enhanced_class_X_with_default_constructor Snippets plug-in should give overview of snippets and not only create a list of names. I agree that this is ok if you have about 20 snippets, you can overview all of them. But if one has a library with about 1000 snippets with many groups of 5-20 snippets with the same keyword name?
We did replace the implementation, if this is wanted again, somebody must step up to implement it, moving this to wishlist status. We are happy to accept patches, otherwise, this is very unlikely to happen, as nobody is really maintaining this plugin :( (that was the reason to swap the implementation, the old one was even less maintained and broken in many cases)
Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it. The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users. If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in a year again. We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/ Greetings Christoph Cullmann