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<h1 class="title">Yet Another Snippet extension</h1>
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<a title="" href="index.html">Intro and tutorial</a>
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<a title="" href="snippet-organization.html">Howto: organize</a>
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<a title="" href="snippet-expansion.html">Howto: expand</a>
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<a title="" href="snippet-development.html">Howto: write </a>
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<b>Important:</b> This documentation applies to
the <b>SVN trunk</b> of YASnippet, which you
get <a href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/source/checkout">here</a>. Documentation
for other versions can be found <a title=""
href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/downloads/list">here</a>.
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<p class="topic-title first">Contents</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#video-demo" id="id1">Video Demo</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#installation" id="id2">Installation</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#install-with-yasnippet-bundle-el" id="id3">Install with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-bundle.el</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#normal-install" id="id4">Normal Install</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#how-to-use-yasnippet" id="id5">How to use YASnippet</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#bugs-contribution-and-support" id="id6">Bugs, Contribution and Support</a></li>
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<p><strong>YASnippet</strong> is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an
abbreviation and automatically expand it into function
templates. Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl,
Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more.</p>
<p>The snippet syntax is inspired from TextMate's syntax, you can even
<a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html#importing-textmate-snippets">import</a>
import most TextMate templates. YASnippet is a re-write of the
extension <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/smart-snippet/">smart-snippet</a>. Both are original creations of <a class="reference external" href="http://pluskid.lifegoo.org">pluskid</a>.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">Video Demo</a></h1>
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<p>Watch the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ygeg9miao">demo at YouTube</a> (download a higher
resolution version: <a class="reference external" href="http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/files/yasnippet.avi">yasnippet.avi</a>).</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Installation</a></h1>
<p>There are two archives you can download. To quickly tryout YASnippet,
download the simpler "bundle" version. If you plan to modify the
bundled templates and/or build your own, download the "normal"
package.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Install with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-bundle.el</span></tt></a></h2>
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<li>Download the latest <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-bundle-x.y.z.el.tgz</span></tt> and unpack it.</li>
<li>You'll get a file named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-bundle.el</span></tt>, put it under
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.emacs.d/plugins/</span></tt> (create the directory if not exists).</li>
<li>Open the file in Emacs, and type <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Alt+x</span> <span class="pre">eval-buffer</span></tt>.</li>
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<p>That's it. Now open any one of your language file, you'll see a menu
YASnippet. you can pull the menu to insert a template. Or, you can
type the a <em>trigger key</em> then press <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TAB</span></tt> to expand it.</p>
<p>To have Emacs load YASnippet automatically when it starts, put the
following in your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.emacs</span></tt> file:</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre>(<span style="color: #19177C">add-to-list</span> <span style="color: #19177C">'load-path</span>
<span style="color: #BA2121">"~/.emacs.d/plugins"</span>)
(<span style="color: #008000">require</span> <span style="color: #19177C">'yasnippet-bundle</span>)
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<p>The <a class="reference external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ygeg9miao">youtube video</a>
demonstrates this quick installation.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Normal Install</a></h2>
<p>To install YASnippet as a normal emacs package, download and unpack
the latest <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-x.y.z.tar.bz2</span></tt>. You'll get a directory named
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-x.y.z</span></tt>, which you can put it in your
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.emacs.d/plugins</span></tt> and add the following in your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.emacs</span></tt> file:</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre>(<span style="color: #19177C">add-to-list</span> <span style="color: #19177C">'load-path</span>
<span style="color: #BA2121">"~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-x.y.z"</span>)
(<span style="color: #008000">require</span> <span style="color: #19177C">'yasnippet</span>) <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; not yasnippet-bundle</span>
(<span style="color: #19177C">yas/initialize</span>)
(<span style="color: #19177C">yas/load-directory</span> <span style="color: #BA2121">"~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-x.y.z/snippets"</span>)
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<p>Please refer to the documentation for full customization, or use the
customization group.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">How to use YASnippet</a></h1>
<p>Since version 0.6, YASnippet contains more functionality. You don't
need to know all of it to use it successfully, but you it can improve
your snippeting experience.</p>
<p>Hence this section has been split into separate documents:</p>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="snippet-organization.html">Organizing Snippets</a></li>
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<blockquote>
Describes ways to organize your snippets in the hard disk (or not
organize them at all and just use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-bundle.el</span></tt>.</blockquote>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="2">
<li><a class="reference external" href="snippet-expansion.html">Expanding Snippets</a></li>
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<p>Describes how YASnippet chooses snippets for expansion at point.</p>
<p>Maybe, you'll want some snippets to be expanded in a particular
mode, or only under certain conditions, or be prompted using
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ido</span></tt>, etc...</p>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing Snippets</a></li>
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<blockquote>
Describes the YASnippet definition syntax, which is very close (but
not equivalent) to Textmate's. Includes a section about converting
TextMate snippets.</blockquote>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="snippet-menu.html">The YASnippet menu</a></li>
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<blockquote>
Explains how to use the YASnippet menu to explore, learn and modify
snippets.</blockquote>
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<div class="section" id="bugs-contribution-and-support">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Bugs, Contribution and Support</a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>If you find a bug, please report it at <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/list">Issue List</a>.</li>
<li>If you have problem using YASnippet, or have some new ideas,
including snippets, please post to the <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet">discussion group</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you very much for using YASnippet!</p>
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