On Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 22:03 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

A previous effort in that direction is the `snippet-engine` branch in
> YASnippet's Git repository, which aimed to reimplement YASnippet's core
> functionality separately from the specific user-visible format of the
> snippets, such that YASnipet could then be reimplemented on top of
> snippet-engine (and hopefully other systems like tempo, tempel, skeleton
> could be reimplemented on top of it as well).


Yes yes.

AFAIK that branch was on the right track,


You should fully disclose it was like 90% your design with my
implementation. But it's true, it was.

but the implementer (João) lost
> motivation at some point.


It's now a repo in github.com/joaotavora/snippet

Maybe I'll get a bit of motivation going again, some APIs are simpler and
I've learned some new tricks since.

Anyone can pick it up. There's a TODO list at the top, and a test suite.
It's a good candidate for test-driven programming.

João