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.