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Shortcuts & triggers

Choosing good triggers and avoiding conflicts.

A trigger is the short text that fires a snippet. By default triggers start with “/”, which keeps them out of the way of normal typing.

Good trigger habits

  • Keep them short and memorable: /sig, /addr, /nps.
  • Use a consistent prefix per category: /em-… for emails, /dev-… for code.
  • Avoid triggers that are substrings of words you type often.
If two snippets share a trigger, expansion is ambiguous — keep triggers unique. Your own snippets always take precedence over shared ones on a conflict.