Using backtick key for hyersnips expansion

[TryerGit]

Hello,

I have found hypersnips faster than native LaTeX Workshop snippets for typing greek symbols. I would like to use the backtick ` key followed by a mnemonic for some snippets such as:

context math(context)
snippet `a "alpha" iA
\alpha 
endsnippet

At present, in LaTeX Workshop, the backtick key gets autocompleted due to the following setting:

    "autoClosingPairs": [
         ["`", "'"]
    ]

in latex-language-configuration.json. See here

As a result, when I press backtick, I end up with `|' where | is the cursor position.

Pressing a after this expands to:

\alpha '

After trigger expansion, is it possible to automatically delete the trailing ' so that one is left with \alpha ?

Thank you.

[sleepymalc]

If you're sure that this auto closing will only be triggered in normal scope (non-math), you can implement it in Hypersnips and define a new scope function called normal which return the negation of math(), and use it for your new snippet defined in Hypersnips as

context normal(context)
snippet ` "auto-closing" iA
`$1' $0
endsnippet

[TryerGit]

Let me think about it. I really want to use backtick as snippet triggers because, amongst other things, it is a single keypress as opposed to LW's default @ which is two keystrokes and it is also consistent with VimTeX in insert mode for greek symbols.

Currently, my workaround is somewhat hackish -- alter the code of LW by doing this. Let me think through your suggestion and see if it is better.

Thanks!

[sleepymalc]

for me, I use a combination of ; and simply typing out the name of the greek symbols. For example, I usually use ;a for $\alpha$, while using pi for $\pi$ since ;p is not fast enough (don't use your pinky twice!) I think this is faster since the backtick is far from the main row on your keyboard. Might just give up on this idea once and for all.