Re: Including Yasnippet to Emacs

[Danil Orlov <zargener@gmail.com>]

I've checked those ones you noted, even snippet.el . They all are not so powerful and user-friendly as yasnippet. And they are all not manage keybindings. And probably not support expansion depending on context in simple way. And docs are really stingy. And snippet language is not so powerful and readable, as in yasnippet.

But you are right - skeleton is totally enough for most modes.

And about snippet.el. I still think, that Yasnippet is better general solution for snippets for Emacs. It has the biggest user community, and lots of ready snippets on github, which can be installed easily. Yasnippet will be better concurrent for snippet systems in other editors and IDEs.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:45:29AM -0400, Stefan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Emacs already has several "snippet" systems builtin:
> tempo.el, skeleton.el, expand.el, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
> 
> > What do you think about it?
> 
> João has a snippet.el in the works, which is yet-another of those
> snippet systems, but this one is designed as a "Lispish core, such that
> yasnippet.el can be provided as a layer on top of it.  He's been writing
> it with a fair bit a bitching^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreview from me, and if all
> goes well it could be included in 24.5.
> 
> 
>         Stefan