Wrong Behaviour of Snippets in Atom

Question

I have created the following snippets in atom:

'.plain.text':
    'cdot':
        'prefix': '\c'
        'body': '\cdot'
    'vec':
        'prefix': '\v'
        'body': '\vec{$1}$2'
    'equation':
        'prefix': '\e'
        'body': """
            \begin{equation}

            $1

            \end{equation}

            """

The problem is that when I invoke them the first one appears correct, the second doesn't appears at all and the third one appears as:

\egin{equation}
end{equation}

Why is that happening? How can I fix it?

Answer 1

• Remove backslash \ from prefixes (or customize with other characters which work)
• Use double-escape (\\\\) when you want them to show on body.

Snippet:

'.plain.text':
  'cdot':
    'prefix': 'c'
    'body': '\\\\cdot'
  'vec':
    'prefix': 'v'
    'body': '\\\\vec{$1}$2'
  'equation':
    'prefix': 'equation'
    'body': """
        \\\\begin{equation}

        $1

        \\\\end{equation}
    """

Note cursors will appear as desired but are moved in the images just to show snippet extension appearing.