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From: Danil Orlov <zargener@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Including Yasnippet to Emacs
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 06:10:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140317041012.GA24472@debian> (raw)

I know that everybody want to push to Emacs standard distro something what he needs. But snippets is another
question - it is too wide used technology to be ignored. Sublime Text Editor, TextMate has it, all Jetbrains IDEs has it, I even
think that every IDE nowdays has it. That's bad argument, but I have another one - lots of modes creates its own wheel to support snippets.

html-mode uses own snippets for tags
web-mode uses own snippets "C-c C-s"
markdown-mode uses own snippets for headers

and that's only modes I use.

I think that if Emacs will have unified mechanism for managing snippets, it will be useful not only for end users, but also for mode creators. 
And those snippets-for-each-mode also steal keybindings. And many of us uses Yasnippet too, so we in fact always have two different snippet engines.

Of course now Yasnippet probably a bit clumsy for usage via API. Maybe something like this must be supported, to migrate mode snippets easily.

(yas/api-add-snippet 
                     "html-mode"   ; mode
                     "h1"          ; name and key
                     "C-x n 1"     ; keyboard shortcut
                     "<h1>$1</h1>" ; snippet body
                     )

So you, as mode author, must not think about bindings, creating function for each snippet.

What do you think about it?



             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-17  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-17  4:10 Danil Orlov [this message]
2014-03-17 14:45 ` Including Yasnippet to Emacs Stefan
2014-03-17 14:53   ` joakim
2014-03-17 17:15   ` João Távora
2014-03-17 17:42   ` Danil Orlov
2014-03-17 19:36     ` Stefan
2014-03-17 20:23       ` João Távora
2014-03-17 21:12         ` Danil Orlov
2014-03-17 21:09       ` Danil Orlov

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