Re: Including Yasnippet to Emacs

[Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> 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