Pretty simple. You probably have run into snippets before.
1. Specify a mapping of snippet to replacement.
`snippet. |+| replacement!`
2. If the cursor is at the end of a snippet...
`snippet.<cursor here>`
3. ..then triggering the snippet conversion...
`snippet.<cursor here - TRIGGER!>`
4. ..will replace the snippet with its replacement!
`replacement!<cursor here>`
## Why?
I wanted to make a generic snippets plugin that operated on text and worked as I needed. There is an existing snippets plugin already, [Text Snippets](https://github.com/ArianaKhit/text-snippets-obsidian) by ArianaKhit, but not only is the plugin code somewhat outdated and a little complex, it seems to use an older API.
One of my goals writing this was to write a simple plugin that used the API exactly as described by the [unofficial docs](https://marcus.se.net/obsidian-plugin-docs/) and by vanilla Typescript. I also wanted to make the core functionality of the plugin more flexible, though of course I have yet to add certain features that would truly provide that.
