Live Snippet Cursor stepts out of paranthesis

[PlisJan]

Bug Report

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You still see this issue?: Yes

Describe the bug

Live Snippet skips out of paranthesis if using +

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Use math environment e.g. align or `equation´
2. Type (a -> vscode automatically closes the bracket -> (a)
3. insert a plus sign (a+)

Expected behaviour

The cursor should stay inside the paranthesis.

Logs

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LaTeX Workshop Output

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LaTeX Utilities Output

[13:45:51] Initializing LaTeX Utilities.
[13:45:51] Live Snippets Loaded
[13:45:51] Completion Watcher Initialised
[13:45:51] LaTeX Utilities Started
[13:45:52] LaTeX Utilities version: 0.4.10
[13:48:09] onDidChangeActiveTextEditor_tex_wordcounter
[13:48:09] onDidChangeActiveTextEditor_tex_wordcounter
[13:48:09] TexCount args: -merge,-brief
[13:48:10] TeXCount output for word: 15+0+0 (0/0/3/1) File: 1.tex

[13:48:10] TexCount args: -merge,-brief,-char
[13:48:10] TeXCount output for char: 105+0+0 (0/0/3/1) File: 1.tex

[13:52:51] onDidChangeTextDocument
[13:52:52] onDidChangeTextDocument
[13:52:56] onDidChangeTextDocument
[13:52:56] onDidChangeTextDocument

Developer Tools Console

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Desktop

• OS: Linux (Fedora 37)
• VS Code version: 1.77.1
• Extension version: 0.4.10

Additional context

[khkrishna18]

I am experiencing the same problem. How to solve this?

[Physicsphobia]

just add $$1,$$2,$$3,...,$$0 in your snippets file, which can help you put the cursor in the right place

[gusss1234]

just add $$1,$$2,$$3,...,$$0 in your snippets file, which can help you put the cursor in the right place

@Physicsphobia How do you do that exactly? I am not sure I particularly understand, very new to this. I think I just need an example (better if there is a bit of explanation). Thanks!

[PlisJan]

@gusss1234
Hit Ctrl+Shift+P, select LateX Utilities: Edit Live Snippets file and in the file that opens replace these lines

    {
    "prefix": "([^ &\\\\\\+\\-=<>\\|!~@])([\\+\\-=<>])$",
    "body": "$1 $2",
    "mode": "maths",
    "priority": -1,
    "description": "whitespace before operators",
    "triggerWhenComplete": true
  },
  {
    "prefix": "([\\+\\-=<>])([^ &\\\\\\+\\-=<>\\|!~])$",
    "body": "$1 $2",
    "mode": "maths",
    "priority": -1,
    "description": "whitespace after operators",
    "triggerWhenComplete": true
  },

against

  {
    "prefix": "([^ &\\\\\\+\\-=<>\\|!~@])([\\+\\-=<>])$",
    "body": "$1 $2$$1",
    "mode": "maths",
    "priority": -1,
    "description": "whitespace before operators",
    "triggerWhenComplete": true
  },
  {
    "prefix": "([\\+\\-=<>])([^ &\\\\\\+\\-=<>\\|!~])$",
    "body": "$1 $2$$1",
    "mode": "maths",
    "priority": -1,
    "description": "whitespace after operators",
    "triggerWhenComplete": true
  },

Then it should work.

[gusss1234]

@PlisJan Thanks! I think it fixed it, need to add it to everything else now since it's not the only affected by operators. This should definitely be fixed in the main codebase.

[gusss1234]

Before that is done, I think this fixes all space problems. Beware, I deleted dot(a) and ddot(a) snippets.
latexUtilsLiveSnippets_guss.json

[grepgrok]

Yeah, I was having this same problem. Without looking at the code, I'm betting it has to do with VSCode not being told where to place the cursor after executing the snippet (or maybe being told to put it in the wrong place). I notice that when I have a snippet with a trigger 2 characters long which expands into 10 characters, the cursor is placed 10 - 2 = 8 characters after the end of the expansion.

This definitely seems like a bug. As a temporary fix, using the guss provided above would work well. For a cleaner fix, it should probably address the issue directly.

[jhanschoo]

For another minimal example, in inline math delimiters \( \), keep typing inn with live reformat on and watch the cursor get misplaced.