YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[pluskid]

The project is at http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/

This is a re-design and re-writing of my original extension smart-
snippet. The goal is ease of use and full features.

= Getting Started
== For the busy or impatient people

Watch the screencast at YouTube. Or download the higher resolution
one.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOj7btx3ATg
 * http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/files/yasnippet.avi

== For lazy people or beginner

   1. Download yasnippet-bundle-x.y.z.el.tgz on the right sidebar and
unpack it.
   2. Save it to
          * One of the directories in your load-path.
          * Some arbitrary directory, e.g ~/.emacs.d/plugins and add
this directory to your load-path, that is, add this to your ~/.emacs
file.

            (add-to-list 'load-path
                         "~/.emacs.d/plugins")

   3. Require it in your ~/.emacs file:

      (require 'yasnippet-bundle)

== For You

   1. Download the latest yasnippet-x.y.z.tar.bz2 on the right
sidebar.
   2. Unpack it.
   3. Add that directory to your load-path.
   4. Require and initialize yasnippet in your ~/.emacs file:

      (require 'yasnippet) ;; not yasnippet-bundle
      (yas/initialize)
      (yas/load-directory "/path/to/the/snippets/directory/")

   5. Optionally you can customize the snippets inside the snippets
directory.
   6. There's also a python script in tools directory to let you
compile your customized snippets into a single stand-alone yasnippet-
bundle file.

== For geeks

If you want to always follow the latest code. You can check out it
from the svn repository:

svn checkout http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ yasnippet

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

pluskid wrote:
> The project is at http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
> 
> This is a re-design and re-writing of my original extension smart-
> snippet. The goal is ease of use and full features.
> 
> = Getting Started
> == For the busy or impatient people
> 
> Watch the screencast at YouTube. Or download the higher resolution
> one.
>  * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOj7btx3ATg
>  * http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/files/yasnippet.avi

So far I have only seen the video, but that was quite impressing. How 
did you do the video?

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Chiyuan Zhang]

2008/3/12, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>:
>
>  So far I have only seen the video, but that was quite impressing. How
>  did you do the video?
>
It was made with Camtasia Studio 4. :)

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Johan Lindström]

At 17:08 2008-03-11, Chiyuan Zhang wrote:
>2008/3/12, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>:
> >
> >  So far I have only seen the video, but that was quite impressing. How
> >  did you do the video?
> >
>It was made with Camtasia Studio 4. :)

Looking at the video, it looks like there is some magic going on when 
you start typing in a field which has a default value.

When you start typing, the default value is replaced with what you 
type. But that's not what happens when I start typing. Instead, my 
typed text is inserted with the default value being pushed to the right.

Do you perform some invisible keyboard maneouver in the screencast or 
did the behaviour change somehow?


/J

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Xavier Maillard]

   The project is at http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/

   This is a re-design and re-writing of my original extension smart-
   snippet. The goal is ease of use and full features.

I watched your video and I am impressed.

Then I decided to look at "competitors" and found them on
emacswiki[1]. There are plenty of alternatives and the choice is
not easy.

So, could you explain in what yasnippet differ from msfabbrev ?
Are you aware of anything like a comparative chart of all the
available modes ?

Why did you feel the need to rewrite smart-snippet ? How does it
work internally ? Why did you need to write your own templating
system (serious question since I find it is pretty closed to what
Msf Abbrev does).

Anyway, congratulations, it is really impressing.

[1] http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryTemplates

	Xavier
-- 
http://www.gnu.org
http://www.april.org
http://www.lolica.org

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Chiyuan Zhang]

Yes, there're some difference from msf-abbrev. For example,
msf-abbrev doesn't support mirror fields and transformations.
It also doesn't support multiple snippet with same name.

I'll make a table to compare with those competitors when I
have time. It's really a good idea. I'm quite confident of
yasnippet. :P

2008/3/19, Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>:
>
>    The project is at http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
>
>    This is a re-design and re-writing of my original extension smart-
>    snippet. The goal is ease of use and full features.
>
>
> I watched your video and I am impressed.
>
>  Then I decided to look at "competitors" and found them on
>  emacswiki[1]. There are plenty of alternatives and the choice is
>  not easy.
>
>  So, could you explain in what yasnippet differ from msfabbrev ?
>  Are you aware of anything like a comparative chart of all the
>  available modes ?
>
>  Why did you feel the need to rewrite smart-snippet ? How does it
>  work internally ? Why did you need to write your own templating
>  system (serious question since I find it is pretty closed to what
>  Msf Abbrev does).
>
>  Anyway, congratulations, it is really impressing.
>
>  [1] http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryTemplates
>
>         Xavier
>
> --
>  http://www.gnu.org
>  http://www.april.org
>  http://www.lolica.org
>

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

"Chiyuan Zhang" <pluskid@gmail.com> wrote:

> It also doesn't support multiple snippet with same name.

Why would one want to have multiple snippets with the same name?

(I'm not dismissing the idea, I really want to know. :) )

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: YASnippet -- Yet another snippet extension (after smart-snippet) for Emacs

[Chiyuan Zhang]

2008/3/20, Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de>:
>
>  "Chiyuan Zhang" <pluskid@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > It also doesn't support multiple snippet with same name.
>
>
> Why would one want to have multiple snippets with the same name?
I think yes. :) Here are two example from the snippets come with
yasnippet:

inc for both #include "..." and #include <...>
doctype for HTML, XHTML, XML, etc.

BTW: I just released YASnippet 0.4.0 -- a condition system is added,
now YASnippet is more smarter than smart-snippet. :p
>
>  (I'm not dismissing the idea, I really want to know. :) )
>
>  regards,
>
> Nikolaj Schumacher
>