I have a snippet called struct. And I write text complex_struct in a snippet field. yasnippet will expand complex_struct with the snippet struct. I have to move backward one character to avoid this behavior.
So I hope there is an indicator like make cursor change color to red, and style. Or change text face etc.
Here is the snippet code:
# -*- mode: snippet -*- # name: struct # key: struct # -- struct ${1:name} { $0 }; # -*- mode: snippet -*- # name: complex_struct # key: complex_struct # -- complex struct ${1:name} { $0 }; When I type text like the following:
complex_struct| The point is at position (|). It will be expanded from snippet struct instead of complex_struct. I don't want to change yasnippet expand detect characters list. Just want to show which text is expandable (Like struct in this case).
I have a demo code to change cursor style dynamically:
;; change cursor dynamically when prefix text is expandable. (defun my-cursor-change-on-snippet () ;; (yas-next-field-or-maybe-expand) (if (or yas-triggers-in-field ; FIXME: improve condition (yas-next-field-will-exit-p)) (progn (set-cursor-color "red") (setq cursor-type 'hollow)) (set-cursor-color "cyan") (setq cursor-type '(hbar . 2)) ) ) (add-hook 'post-command-hook #'my-cursor-change-on-snippet) 
