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snipMate & UltiSnip Snippets
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This repository contains snippets files for various programming languages.
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It is community-maintained and many people have contributed snippet files and
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other improvements already.
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Contents
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--------
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- `snippets/*`: snippets using snipMate format
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- `UltiSnips/*`: snippets using UltiSnips format
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Snippet engines supporting vim-snippets
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----------------------------------------
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There are different forks of snippet engines which allow the user to insert
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snippets by typing the name of a snippet hitting the expansion mapping.
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- [github.com/SirVer/ultisnips](https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips):
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python, supports all snippets in this repo.
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- [github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate](https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate):
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VimL, snipmate-snippets, engine sometimes behaves strange. Supports
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snippets/*
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- [github.com/Shougo/neosnippet](https://github.com/Shougo/neosnippet.vim):
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VimL, supports snippets/* with some configuration.
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- [github.com/drmingdrmer/xptemplate](https://github.com/drmingdrmer/xptemplate):
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Totally different syntax, does not read snippets contained in this file, but
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it is also very powerful. It does not support vim-snippets (just listing it
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here for completeness)
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There tries to be a more comprehensive list (which still is incomplete) here:
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http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/text-snippets-skeletons-templates.html
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UltiSnips has additional features such as high speed, nesting snippets,
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expanding snippets in snippets and offers powerful transformations on text in
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snippets (like visual selections or placeholder texts).
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Which one to use? If you have python give
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[SirVer/ultisnips](https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips) a try because its fast
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and has the most features.
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If you have VimL only (vim without python support) your best option is using
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[garbas/vim-snipmate](https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate) and cope with the
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minor bugs found in the engine.
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Q: Should "snipMate be deprecated in favour of UltiSnips"?
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A: No, because snipMate is VimL, and UltiSnips requires Python.
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Some people want to use snippets without having to install Vim with Python
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support. Yes - this sucks.
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One solution would be: Use snippets if they are good enough, but allow overriding them
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in UltiSnips. This would avoid most duplication while still serving most users.
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AFAIK there is a nested-placeholder branch for snipMate too. snipMate is still
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improved by Adnan Zafar. So maybe time is not ready to make a final decision yet.
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[github issue/discussion](https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets/issues/363)
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Installation
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------------
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First be aware that there are many options, see "Snippet engines" above.
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Second be aware than there are [tons of plugin managers](http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html)
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which is why Marc Weber thinks that it doesn't make sense to repeat the same
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repetitive information everywhere.
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*Recommended way:*
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[vim-addon-manager](https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager) (because Marc Weber wrote it for exactly
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this reason, it supports simple dependency management). E.g. you're done by this
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line in your `.vimrc`:
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```vim
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" assuming you want to use snipmate snippet engine
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ActivateAddons vim-snippets snipmate
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```
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[vim-pi](https://bitbucket.org/vimcommunity/vim-pi/issue/90/we-really-need-a-web-interface)
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Is the place to discuss plugin managers and repository resources.
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About how to install snipMate see [snipmate@garbas](https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate)
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(Bundle, Pathogen, git clone - keywords to make people find this link by ctrl-f search)
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I know that I should be reading the docs of the snippet engine, just let me copy paste into my `.vimrc`:
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[See this pull request](https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets/pull/307/files).
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TROUBLE
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=======
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If you still have trouble getting this to work create a GitHub ticket, ask on
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IRC or the mailing list.
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Policies / for contributors
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---------------------------
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Some snippets are useful for almost all languages, so let's try to have the same
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triggers for them:
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```
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if : if without else
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ife: if $1 else $2
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eif : else if ($1) { .. }
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el : else ..
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wh : while (cond) ...
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```
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Don't add useless placeholder default texts like:
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```
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if (${1:condition}){
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${2:some code here}
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}
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```
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instead use:
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```
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if (${1}){
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${2}
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}
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```
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Exception: Functions which are used less often, such as Vim's `matchall()`, `matchstr()`
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functions which case hints may be helpful to remember order. In the VimL case
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get vim-dev plugin which has function completion
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Thus for conditions (while, if ..) and block bodies just use ${N} - Thanks
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Open questions:
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What about one line if ee then .. else .. vs if \n .. then \n ... \n else \n .. ?
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Which additional policies to add?
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Discuss at: https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets/issues/230
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*folding markers*:
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Until further work is done on `vim-snipmate`, please don't add folding markers
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into snippets. `vim-snipmate` has some comments about how to patch all snippets
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on the fly adding those.
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Currently all snippets from UltiSnips have been put into UltiSnips - some work
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on merging should be done (dropping duplicates etc). Also see engines section above.
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Related repositories
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We also encourage people to maintain sets of snippets for particular use cases
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so that all users can benefit from them. People can list their snippet repositories here:
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* https://github.com/rbonvall/snipmate-snippets-bib (snippets for BibTeX files)
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* https://github.com/sudar/vim-arduino-snippets (snippets for Arduino files)
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* https://github.com/zedr/zope-snipmate-bundle.git (snippets for Python, TAL and ZCML)
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* https://github.com/bonsaiben/bootstrap-snippets (snippets for Twitter Bootstrap markup, in HTML and Haml)
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Installation using VAM: https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager
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Future - ideas - examples
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[overview snippet engines](http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/text-snippets-skeletons-templates.html)
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If you have ideas you can add them to that list of "snippet engine features by example".
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Historical notes
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----------------
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[vim-snipmate][1] was originally started by [Michael Sanders][2] who has now
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unfortunately abandoned the project. [Rok Garbas][3] is now maintaining a
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[fork][4] of the project in hopes of improving the existing code base.
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Versions / dialects / ..
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========================
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There are some issues, such as newer language versions may require other
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snippets than older. If this exists we currently recommend doing this:
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* add snippets/ruby.snippets (common snippets)
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* add snippets/ruby-1.8.snippets (1.8 only)
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* add snippets/ruby-1.9.snippets (1.9 only)
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then configure https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate this way:
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```vim
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let g:snipMate = {}
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let g:snipMate.scope_aliases = {}
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let g:snipMate.scope_aliases['ruby'] = 'ruby,ruby-rails,ruby-1.9'
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```
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If it happens that you work on a project requiring ruby-1.8 snippets instead,
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consider using `vim-addon-local-vimrc` and override the filetypes.
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Well - of course it may not make sense to create a new file for each
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ruby-library-version triplet. Sometimes postfixing a name such as
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```
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migrate_lib_20_down
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migrate_lib_20_up
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```
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will do it then if syntax has changed.
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Language maintainers
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No one can really be proficient in all programming languages. If you would like
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to maintain snippets for a language, please get in touch.
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Notes: People are interested in snippets - and their interest may wane again.
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This list is kept up-to-date on a best effort basis.
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* Elixir - [iurifq](https://github.com/iurifq)
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* Falcon - [steveno](https://github.com/steveno)
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* HTML Django - [honza](http://github.com/honza)
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* Javascript - [honza](http://github.com/honza)
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* Markdown - [honza](http://github.com/honza)
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* PHP - [chrisyue](http://github.com/chrisyue)
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* Python - [honza](http://github.com/honza)
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* Ruby - [taq](http://github.com/taq)
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* Scala - [gorodinskiy](https://github.com/gorodinskiy)
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License
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-------
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Just as the original snipMate plugin, all the snippets are licensed under the
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terms of the MIT license.
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[1]: http://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
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[2]: http://github.com/msanders
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[3]: http://github.com/garbas
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[4]: http://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
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[7]: http://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips
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