Expanding Snippets in evil-insert-mode

Question

I just moved to spacemacs from vim and am a complete newbie with emacs.

I cannot figure out how to expand yasnippets while in evil-insert-mode. I know yasnippet is available because I can choose from the available snippets using Spc i s. However I'd like to be able to <Tab> expand them. What am I missing?

Answer 1

M-/ is the default binding to expand snippets not TAB. You can find this out with Spc ? then searching for yas

Answer 2

M-x yas-expand, you can C-h f yas-expand to check which hotkey is assigned.

company is an auto-completion framework which supports many backends. company-yasnippet could be its backend. If you use company-yasnippet, please check https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/492

I use yasnippets independently and assign global hotkey M-j to yas-expand

Answer 3

As I can see Spacemacs is not using the classic yas-expand but uses hippie expand which triggers yas-expand:

M-/ runs the command hippie-expand (found in global-map), which is an
interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in ‘hippie-exp.el’.

 is bound to M-/.

(hippie-expand ARG)

:around advice: ‘ad-Advice-hippie-expand’

Try to expand text before point, using multiple methods.
The expansion functions in ‘hippie-expand-try-functions-list’ are
tried in order, until a possible expansion is found.  Repeated
application of ‘hippie-expand’ inserts successively possible
expansions.
With a positive numeric argument, jumps directly to the ARG next
function in this list.  With a negative argument or just SPC u,
undoes the expansion.