SnipMate completion misses possibilities from partial words

[ajzafar]

From @unclechu:

Here the example of code that I need to write:

SocialSubFieldsCollection.__super__.initialize.apply(this, arguments);

I try to write:

SocialSubFieldsCollection.__super__.initialize.ap

Here the snippet: https://github.com/unclechu/vimrc2/blob/master/.vim/snippets/javascript.snippets#L104-L105
When I have space before .ap it calls snippet-autocomplete, but in this case it doesn't. But still works when I type full snippet name .apply. Then it means we have issue with snippet-autocomplete when we haven't space before snippet name, right?

[ajzafar]

This is a limitation resulting from the fact that Vim's complete() function needs to know how big a word is to be completed. I think there's a workaround we can do, but it might be a while before I can get around to it. Right now, SnipMate looks only for possible snippets that start with the entire WORD before the cursor. In order to add other lookups, their triggers need to be combined with the rest of the WORD so that the completion function works correctly.