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<h1>0.7.0b / ????-??-??</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Filenames can no longer be snippet triggers. Please upgrade your snippet
collections.</li>
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<div class="section" id="c-2009-08-13">
<h1>0.6.1c / 2009-08-13</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues">issues</a> 99, 98, 93,
90, 91, 88, 87. Thanks everybody.</li>
<li>More compliant customization group <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=94">Issue94</a>, (thanks
wyuenho).</li>
<li>Added workaround for issue 97 in the FAQ</li>
<li>Small updates to documentation.</li>
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<div class="section" id="b-2009-08-29">
<h1>0.6.1b / 2009-08-29</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Much more powerful menu. See <a class="reference external" href="snippet-menu.html">The YASnippet menu</a>.</li>
<li>New ways to organize snippets. See <a class="reference external" href="snippet-organization.html">Organizing snippets</a>.</li>
<li>Added <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/also-auto-indent-first-line</span></tt> customization variable.</li>
<li>Renamed directive <tt class="docutils literal"># env:</tt> to <tt class="docutils literal"># <span class="pre">expand-env:</span></tt></li>
<li>Rewrote much of the documentation.</li>
<li>Added TextMate import tool <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">textmate-import.rb</span></tt> to to svn
repository (see &quot;extras/&quot;)</li>
<li>Added <em>experimental</em> bundle of textmate snippets
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yasnippet-textmate-bundle.el</span></tt></li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=74">Issue 74</a> (thanks
rmartin.k...&#64;gmail.com)</li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=80">Issues 80 through 84</a> (thanks
Moritz Bunkus)</li>
<li>Fixed many more issues...</li>
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<div class="section" id="c-2009-07-27">
<h1>0.6.0c / 2009-07-27</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Now byte compiles correctly with no warnings.</li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=68">Issue 68</a> with
mouse-clicking alternatives in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ido-mode</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Added <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/also-auto-indent-first-line</span></tt> customization variable.</li>
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<div class="section" id="b-2009-07-25">
<h1>0.6.0b / 2009-07-25</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Nested placeholders of the type <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;div${1:</span> <span class="pre">id=&quot;${2:someid}&quot;}&gt;</span> $0</tt>.</li>
<li>More robust undo/redo support.</li>
<li>Stacked snippet expansion (<em>snippet in snippet</em>).</li>
<li>Transformation on a primary field with syntax <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">${1:default$(transform)}</span></tt></li>
<li>Validations on field exit through the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/verify-value</span></tt>
primary field transformation.</li>
<li>Wrapping the region in the exit marker <tt class="docutils literal">$0</tt> of the snippet. Use
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/wrap-around-region</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Auto-indentation. Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt> set to <tt class="docutils literal">'auto</tt></li>
<li>Easier definition of snippets. Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/find-snippets</span></tt> or
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/visit-snippet-file</span></tt>. In the new <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt> use
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/load-snippet-buffer</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/tryout-snippet</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Customization group <tt class="docutils literal">yasnippet</tt>.</li>
<li>Overriding customization variables in snippets. Use the <tt class="docutils literal">env:
<span class="pre">let-form</span></tt> template keyword.</li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=60">Issue 60</a></li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=65">Issue 65</a></li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=56">Issue 56</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="id1">
<h1>0.5.10 / 2009-02-11</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added <em>grouping</em> support so that the snippets in the menu can be
groupped together.</li>
<li>Make the bundle <a class="reference external" href="http://tromey.com/elpa/index.html">ELPA</a>
compatible.</li>
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<div class="section" id="id2">
<h1>0.5.9 / 2009-01-21</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed the bug of disabling the auto-indenting of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cc-mode</span></tt>.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id3">
<h1>0.5.8 / 2009-01-15</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added a <tt class="docutils literal">key</tt> property in snippet definition for snippet names
that are not valid path name.</li>
<li>Fixed some bugs of indenting (<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=44">Issue 44</a>, <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=46">Issue
46</a>).</li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=45">Issue 45</a> by
providing a proper default value for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/buffer-local-condition</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Added helper function <tt class="docutils literal">yas/substr</tt> for convenient mirror
transformation.</li>
<li>Make variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/registered-snippet</span></tt> properly initialized.</li>
<li>Fixed the overlay error when overlay becomes empty (<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=49">Issue 49</a> and
<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=48">Issue 48</a>). This
bug has occurred and been fixed earlier, and should not have
happened if we have proper regression test.</li>
<li>Added a workaround for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c-electric-</span></tt> serial commands (<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=27">Issue 27</a>).</li>
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<div class="section" id="id4">
<h1>0.5.7 / 2008-12-03</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=28">Issue 28</a> of
properly clean up snippet (by joaotavora).</li>
<li>Added a new section &quot;Field-level undo functionality&quot; to correct
<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=33">Issue 33</a>
(by joaotavora).</li>
<li>Added some snippets from users for sql, erlang, scala, html, xml, latex, etc.</li>
<li>Fixed <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=16">Issue 16</a> by adding
<tt class="docutils literal">$&gt;</tt> support. Here's the <a class="reference external" href="http://pluskid.lifegoo.com/upload/project/yasnippet/doc/define_snippet.html#indenting">doc for $&gt; indenting</a>.</li>
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<div class="section" id="id5">
<h1>0.5.6 / 2008-08-07</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added a buffer local variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/dont-activate</span></tt> to turn off
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> in some major modes. See <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=29">Issue 29</a>.</li>
<li>Make the environment of elisp evaluation more friendly to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(current-column)</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Fixed the regular expression bug in python-mode snippets.</li>
<li>Use filename or full key extension for snippet name if no <tt class="docutils literal">name</tt>
property is defined.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id6">
<h1>0.5.5 / 2008-05-29</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Tweak <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/extra-mode-hooks</span></tt> so that it can be more easily
customized.</li>
<li>Add an entry in FAQ about why <tt class="docutils literal">TAB</tt> key doesn't work in some
modes.</li>
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<div class="section" id="id7">
<h1>0.5.4 / 2008-05-15</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ox-mode-hook</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-mode-hook</span></tt> to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/extra-mode-hooks</span></tt> to fix the problem YASnippet is not enabled
in those modes.</li>
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<div class="section" id="id8">
<h1>0.5.3 / 2008-05-07</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix indent of python-mode snippets.</li>
<li>Fix a bug of dropdown-list: conflicts with color-theme (<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=23">Issue 23</a>). Thanks
Mike.</li>
<li>Fix a bug of condition system.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id9">
<h1>0.5.2 / 2008-04-20</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix a bug for comparing string to symbol using <tt class="docutils literal">string=</tt> (which
will fire an error).</li>
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<div class="section" id="id10">
<h1>0.5.1 / 2008-04-14</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Use a beautiful css style in the document.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id11">
<h1>0.5.0 / 2008-04-10</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Integrate with hippie-expand. Just add <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/hippie-try-expand</span></tt> to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hippie-expand-try-functions-list</span></tt>.</li>
<li>If you set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/fall-back-behavior</span></tt> to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'return-nil</span></tt>, YASnippet
will return nil when it can't find a snippet to expand.</li>
<li>Defect fix: the condition of a snippet was evaluated twice in
earlier version.</li>
<li>Deleting snippet (using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-w</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-k</span></tt>) won't cause serious
problem now.</li>
<li>Several complex snippet for python-mode from Yasser included in the
distribution.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id12">
<h1>0.4.5 / 2008-04-07</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Merge the latest dropdown-list.el.</li>
<li>Add snippets for f90-mode from Li Zhu.</li>
<li>Bug fix: l-safe-expr-p: Lisp nesting exceeds <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">max-lisp-eval-depth</span></tt>
error when several (more than two) snippets overlaps. Thanks
<a class="reference external" href="mailto:sunwaybupt&#64;newsmth">sunwaybupt&#64;newsmth</a> for reporting this bug.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id13">
<h1>0.4.4 / 2008-03-24</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Bug fix: dropdown-list.el doesn't recognize [return] properly.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id14">
<h1>0.4.3 / 2008-03-23</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Bug fix: failed to recognize user customized yas/trigger-key.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id15">
<h1>0.4.2 / 2008-03-22</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Make a separate document package for release. Also make document
available online.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id16">
<h1>0.4.1 / 2008-03-21</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Make sure <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt>'s key bindings always take priority to
other minor modes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id17">
<h1>0.4.0 / 2008-03-20</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Document refinement and released with YASnippet. Most of the Online
wiki document will be deprecated soon.</li>
<li>Powerful condition system added to yasnippet!</li>
<li>Incorporate <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dropdown-list.el</span></tt> and make it default way for
selecting multiple candidates. Thanks to <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet/browse_thread/thread/c869158b76addeb3/e7c6372ba457189e">Jaeyoun Chung</a>.</li>
<li>yas/before-expand-snippet-hook</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id18">
<h1>0.3.2 / 2008-03-19</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Enhancement: A better way to define minor-mode. Thanks to Kentaro
Kuribayashi. See <a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet/browse_thread/thread/65cb3b5583eda887?hl=en">this thread</a>
for more details.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id19">
<h1>0.3.1 / 2008-03-17</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Bug fix: Emacs get confused when a field is deleted. See <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=10">issue 10</a>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id20">
<h1>0.3.0 / 2008-03-16</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Add a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/after-exit-snippet-hook</span></tt> so that you can do something like
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indent-region</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fill-region</span></tt> after finish the snippet.</li>
<li>Use minor-mode instead of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">global-set-key</span></tt> to bind the trigger
key. Now the trigger key and fall-back behavior can be more
flexible. Not constrained to <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;tab&gt;</tt>. Thanks to Trey Jackson. See
this <a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet/browse_thread/thread/937f32a2a6dea4f2?hl=en">thread</a>
for more details.</li>
<li>Now user can customize the popup function for selecting multiple
candidate for the same snippet key.</li>
<li>Support <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dropdown-list.el</span></tt> to be a better way to select multiple
candidate when in text mode.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id21">
<h1>0.2.3 / 2008-03-15</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Bug in non-window (-nw) mode when there's multiple candidate to
expand. See <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=7">issue 7</a>.</li>
<li>Allow expanding another snippet as long as not currently inside a
field.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id22">
<h1>0.2.2 / 2008-03-13</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added customized face for fields and mirrors. Better in dark
background. And users can customize it.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id23">
<h1>0.2.1 / 2008-03-10</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix the insert-behind problem under both Emacs 22 and Emacs 23.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id24">
<h1>0.2.0 / 2008-03-10</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Use big keymap overlay to detect <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">insert-behind</span></tt> event manually to
avoid sometimes missed hook calls. See <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=3">issue 3</a> for more
details.</li>
<li>Support parent snippet table. Now you can set (for example)
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cc-mode</span></tt> as common mode for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c++-mode</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c-mode</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">java-mode</span></tt>. They'll share snippets defined for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cc-mode</span></tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id25">
<h1>0.1.1 / 2008-03-08</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Add a rake task to upload to google code.</li>
<li>Use elisp compile-bundle function instead of python scrip</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id26">
<h1>0.1.0 / 2008-03-07</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Embedded elisp support.</li>
<li>Fields navigation support.</li>
<li>Mirror of fields support.</li>
<li>Menu-bar support.</li>
<li>Multiple snippets with same name support.</li>
<li>Popup menu for multiple snippet with same name support.</li>
<li>Transformation of fields support.</li>
<li>Load directory support.</li>
<li>Compile bundle support.</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Why is there an extra newline?</h1>
<p>If you have a newline at the end of the snippet definition file, then
YASnippet will add a newline when you expanding a snippet. Please
don't add a newline at the end if you don't want it when you saving
the snippet file.</p>
<p>Note some editors will automatically add a newline for you. In Emacs,
if you set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">require-final-newline</span></tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">t</tt>, it will add the final
newline for you automatically.</p>
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<div class="section" id="why-doesn-t-tab-expand-a-snippet">
<h1>Why doesn't TAB expand a snippet?</h1>
<p>First check the mode line to see if there's <tt class="docutils literal">yas</tt>. If not, then try
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> to manually turn on the minor mode and try to
expand the snippet again. If it works, then, you can add the following
code to your <tt class="docutils literal">.emacs</tt> <em>before</em> loading YASnippet:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(add-hook &#39;the-major-mode-hook &#39;yas/minor-mode-on)
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<p>where <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">the-major-mode</span></tt> is the major mode in which <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt>
isn't enabled by default.</p>
<p>From YASnippet 0.6 you can also use the command <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span>
<span class="pre">yas/global-mode</span></tt> to turn on YASnippet automatically for <em>all</em> major
modes.</p>
<p>If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> is on but the snippet still not expanded. Then
try to see what command is bound to the <tt class="docutils literal">TAB</tt> key: press <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-h</span> k</tt>
and then press <tt class="docutils literal">TAB</tt>. Emacs will show you the result.</p>
<p>You'll see a buffer prompted by Emacs saying that <tt class="docutils literal">TAB runs the
command ...</tt>. Alternatively, you might see <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;tab&gt; runs the command
...</tt>, note the difference between <tt class="docutils literal">TAB</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;tab&gt;</tt> where the
latter has priority. If you see <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;tab&gt;</tt> bound to a command other
than <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt>, (e.g. in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">org-mode</span></tt>) you can try the following
code to work around:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(add-hook &#39;org-mode-hook
(let ((original-command (lookup-key org-mode-map [tab])))
`(lambda ()
(setq yas/fallback-behavior
&#39;(apply ,original-command))
(local-set-key [tab] &#39;yas/expand))))
</pre></div>
<p>replace <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">org-mode-hook</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">org-mode-map</span></tt> with the major mode
hook you are dealing with (Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-h</span> m</tt> to see what major mode you
are in).</p>
<p>As an alternative, you can also try</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(defun yas/advise-indent-function (function-symbol)
(eval `(defadvice ,function-symbol (around yas/try-expand-first activate)
,(format
&quot;Try to expand a snippet before point, then call `%s&#39; as usual&quot;
function-symbol)
(let ((yas/fallback-behavior nil))
(unless (and (interactive-p)
(yas/expand))
ad-do-it)))))
(yas/advise-indent-function &#39;ruby-indent-line)
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<p>To <em>advise</em> the modes indentation function bound to TAB, (in this case
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ruby-indent-line</span></tt>) to first try to run <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt>.</p>
<p>If the output of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-h</span> k RET &lt;tab&gt;</tt> tells you that <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;tab&gt;</tt> is
indeed bound to <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt> but YASnippet still doesn't work, check
your configuration and you may also ask for help on the <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet">discussion
group</a>. See this
particular <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/detail?id=93&amp;can=1">thread</a> for
quite some solutions and alternatives.</p>
<p>Don't forget to attach the information on what command is bound to TAB
as well as the mode information (Can be obtained by <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-h</span> m</tt>).</p>
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<div class="section" id="why-doesn-t-tab-navigation-work-with-flyspell">
<h1>Why doesn't TAB navigation work with flyspell</h1>
<p>A workaround is to inhibit flyspell overlays while the snippet is active:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(add-hook &#39;flyspell-incorrect-hook
#&#39;(lambda (dummy1 dummy2 dymmy3)
(and yas/active-field-overlay
(overlay-buffer yas/active-field-overlay))))
</pre></div>
<p>This is apparently related to overlay priorities. For some reason, the
<tt class="docutils literal">keymap</tt> property of flyspell's overlays always takes priority over
the same property in yasnippet's overlays, even if one sets the
latter's <tt class="docutils literal">priority</tt> property to something big. If you know
emacs-lisp and can solve this problem, drop a line in the <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet">discussion
group</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="how-do-i-turn-off-the-minor-mode-where-in-some-buffers">
<h1>How do I turn off the minor mode where in some buffers</h1>
<p>The best way, since version 0.6.1c, is to set the default value of the
variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/dont-activate</span></tt> to a lambda function like so:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(set-default &#39;yas/dont-activate
#&#39;(lambda ()
(and yas/root-directory
(null (yas/get-snippet-tables)))))
</pre></div>
<p>This is also the default value starting for that version. It skips the
minor mode in buffers where it is not applicable (no snippet tables),
but only once you have setup your yas/root-directory.</p>
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<dl class="docutils">
<dt><strong>Note</strong>: This question applies if you're still defining snippets</dt>
<dd>whose key <em>is</em> the filename. This is behavior stil provided by
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<p>For example, you want to define a snippet by the key <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;</tt> which is
not a valid character for filename on Windows. This means you can't
use the filename as a trigger key in this case.</p>
<p>You should rather use the <tt class="docutils literal"># key:</tt> directive to specify the key of
the defined snippet explicitly and name your snippet with an arbitrary
valid filename, <tt class="docutils literal">lt.yasnippet</tt> for example, using <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;</tt> for the
<tt class="docutils literal"># key:</tt> directive:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">#key: &lt;
#name: &lt;...&gt;&lt;/...&gt;
# --
&lt;${1:div}&gt;$0&lt;/$1&gt;
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#snippet-development" id="id3">Snippet development</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#quickly-finding-snippets" id="id4">Quickly finding snippets</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#using-the-snippet-mode-major-mode" id="id5">Using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt> major mode</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#file-content" id="id6">File content</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#key-snippet-abbrev" id="id7"><tt class="docutils literal"># key:</tt> snippet abbrev</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#name-snippet-name" id="id8"><tt class="docutils literal"># name:</tt> snippet name</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#condition-snippet-condition" id="id9"><tt class="docutils literal"># condition:</tt> snippet condition</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#group-snippet-menu-grouping" id="id10"><tt class="docutils literal"># group:</tt> snippet menu grouping</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#expand-env-expand-environment" id="id11"><tt class="docutils literal"># <span class="pre">expand-env:</span></tt> expand environment</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#binding-direct-keybinding" id="id12"><tt class="docutils literal"># binding:</tt> direct keybinding</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#contributor-snippet-author" id="id13"><tt class="docutils literal"># contributor:</tt> snippet author</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-syntax" id="id14">Template syntax</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#plain-text" id="id15">Plain Text</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#embedded-emacs-lisp-code" id="id16">Embedded Emacs-lisp code</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tab-stop-fields" id="id17">Tab stop fields</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#placeholder-fields" id="id18">Placeholder fields</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id2" id="id19">Mirrors</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#mirrors-with-transformations" id="id20">Mirrors with transformations</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#fields-with-transformations" id="id21">Fields with transformations</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#choosing-fields-value-from-a-list-and-other-tricks" id="id22">Choosing fields value from a list and other tricks</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#nested-placeholder-fields" id="id23">Nested placeholder fields</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#customizable-variables" id="id24">Customizable variables</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-trigger-key" id="id25"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-next-field-key" id="id26"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/next-field-key</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-prev-field-key" id="id27"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prev-field-key</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-skip-and-clear-key" id="id28"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/skip-and-clear-key</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-good-grace" id="id29"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/good-grace</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-indent-line" id="id30"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-wrap-around-region" id="id31"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/wrap-around-region</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-triggers-in-field" id="id32"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/triggers-in-field</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-snippet-revival" id="id33"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/snippet-revival</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-after-exit-snippet-hook-and-yas-before-expand-snippet-hook" id="id34"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/after-exit-snippet-hook</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/before-expand-snippet-hook</span></tt></a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#importing-textmate-snippets" id="id35">Importing TextMate snippets</a></li>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Snippet development</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="quickly-finding-snippets">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Quickly finding snippets</a></h2>
<p>There are some ways you can quickly find a snippet file:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/new-snippet</span></tt></p>
<p>Prompts you for a snippet name, then tries to guess a suitable
directory to store it, prompting you for creation if it does not
exist. Finally, places you in a new buffer set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt>
so you can write your snippet.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/find-snippets</span></tt></p>
<p>Lets you find the snippet file in the directory the snippet was
loaded from (if it exists) like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">find-file-other-window</span></tt>. The
directory searching logic is similar to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/new-snippet</span></tt>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/visit-snippet-file</span></tt></p>
<p>Prompts you for possible snippet expansions like
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt>, but instead of expanding it, takes you
directly to the snippet definition's file, if it exists.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you find this file it will be set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt> (see ahead)
and you can start editing your snippet.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="using-the-snippet-mode-major-mode">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt> major mode</a></h2>
<p>There is a major mode <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt> to edit snippets. You can set
the buffer to this mode with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt>. It provides
reasonably useful syntax highlighting.</p>
<p>Two commands are defined in this mode:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/load-snippet-buffer</span></tt></p>
<blockquote>
<p>When editing a snippet, this loads the snippet into the correct
mode and menu. Bound to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-c</span> <span class="pre">C-c</span></tt> by default while in
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt>.</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/tryout-snippet</span></tt></p>
<blockquote>
<p>When editing a snippet, this opens a new empty buffer, sets it to
the appropriate major mode and inserts the snippet there, so you
can see what it looks like. This is bound to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-c</span> <span class="pre">C-t</span></tt> while in
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">snippet-mode</span></tt>.</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<p>There are also <em>snippets for writing snippets</em>: <tt class="docutils literal">vars</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">$f</tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal">$m</tt> :-).</p>
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<div class="section" id="file-content">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">File content</a></h1>
<p>A file defining a snippet generally contains the template to be
expanded.</p>
<p>Optionally, if the file contains a line of <tt class="docutils literal"># <span class="pre">--</span></tt>, the lines above
it count as comments, some of which can be <em>directives</em> (or meta
data). Snippet directives look like <tt class="docutils literal"># property: value</tt> and tweak
certain snippets properties described below. If no <tt class="docutils literal"># <span class="pre">--</span></tt> is found,
the whole file is considered the snippet template.</p>
<p>Here's a typical example:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">#contributor : pluskid &lt;pluskid@gmail.com&gt;
#name : __...__
# --
__${init}__
</pre></div>
<p>Here's a list of currently supported directives:</p>
<div class="section" id="key-snippet-abbrev">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7"><tt class="docutils literal"># key:</tt> snippet abbrev</a></h2>
<p>This is the probably the most important directive, it's the abbreviation you
type to expand a snippet just before hitting <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt>. If you don't
specify this the snippet will not be expandable through the key mechanism.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="name-snippet-name">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8"><tt class="docutils literal"># name:</tt> snippet name</a></h2>
<p>This is a one-line description of the snippet. It will be displayed in
the menu. It's a good idea to select a descriptive name for a
snippet -- especially distinguishable among similar snippets.</p>
<p>If you omit this name it will default to the file name the snippet was
loaded from.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="condition-snippet-condition">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9"><tt class="docutils literal"># condition:</tt> snippet condition</a></h2>
<p>This is a piece of Emacs-lisp code. If a snippet has a condition, then it
will only be expanded when the condition code evaluate to some non-nil
value.</p>
<p>See also <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/buffer-local-condition</span></tt> in <a class="reference external" href="snippet-expansion.html">Expanding snippets</a></p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="group-snippet-menu-grouping">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10"><tt class="docutils literal"># group:</tt> snippet menu grouping</a></h2>
<p>When expanding/visiting snippets from the menu-bar menu, snippets for a
given mode can be grouped into sub-menus . This is useful if one has
too many snippets for a mode which will make the menu too
long.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"># group:</tt> property only affect menu construction (See <a class="reference external" href="snippet-menu.html">the
YASnippet menu</a>) and the same effect can be achieved by grouping
snippets into sub-directories and using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-make-groups</span></tt>
special file (for this see <a class="reference external" href="snippet-organization.html">Organizing Snippets</a></p>
<p>Refer to the bundled snippets for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ruby-mode</span></tt> for examples on the
<tt class="docutils literal"># group:</tt> directive. Group can also be nested, e.g. <tt class="docutils literal">control
structure.loops</tt> tells that the snippet is under the <tt class="docutils literal">loops</tt> group
which is under the <tt class="docutils literal">control structure</tt> group.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="expand-env-expand-environment">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11"><tt class="docutils literal"># <span class="pre">expand-env:</span></tt> expand environment</a></h2>
<p>This is another piece of Emacs-lisp code in the form of a <tt class="docutils literal">let</tt>
<em>varlist form</em>, i.e. a list of lists assigning values to variables. It
can be used to override variable values while the snippet is being
expanded.</p>
<p>Interesting variables to override are <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/wrap-around-region</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt> (see <a class="reference external" href="snippet-expansion.html">Expanding Snippets</a>).</p>
<p>As an example, you might normally have <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt> set to
<tt class="docutils literal">'auto</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/wrap-around-region</span></tt> set to <tt class="docutils literal">t</tt>, but for this
particularly brilliant piece of ASCII art these values would mess up
your hard work. You can then use:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"># name : ASCII home
# expand-env: ((yas/indent-line &#39;fixed) (yas/wrap-around-region &#39;nil))
# --
welcome to my
X humble
/ \ home,
/ \ $0
/ \
/-------\
| |
| +-+ |
| | | |
+--+-+--+
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="binding-direct-keybinding">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12"><tt class="docutils literal"># binding:</tt> direct keybinding</a></h2>
<p>You can use this directive to expand a snippet directly from a normal
Emacs keybinding. The keybinding will be registered in the Emacs
keymap named after the major mode the snippet is active
for.</p>
<p>Additionally a variable <tt class="docutils literal">yas/prefix</tt> is set to to the prefix
argument you normally use for a command. This allows for small
variations on the same snippet, for example in this &quot;html-mode&quot;
snippet.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">#name : &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;
#binding: C-c C-c C-m
# --
&lt;p&gt;`(when yas/prefix &quot;\n&quot;)`$0`(when yas/prefix &quot;\n&quot;)`&lt;/p&gt;
</pre></div>
<p>This binding will be recorded in the keymap
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html-mode-map</span></tt>. To expand a paragraph tag newlines, just
press <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-u</span> <span class="pre">C-c</span> <span class="pre">C-c</span> <span class="pre">C-m</span></tt>. Omitting the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-u</span></tt> will expand the
paragraph tag without newlines.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="contributor-snippet-author">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13"><tt class="docutils literal"># contributor:</tt> snippet author</a></h2>
<p>This is optional and has no effect whatsoever on snippet
functionality, but it looks nice.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="template-syntax">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">Template syntax</a></h1>
<p>The syntax of the snippet template is simple but powerful, very
similar to TextMate's.</p>
<div class="section" id="plain-text">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">Plain Text</a></h2>
<p>Arbitrary text can be included as the content of a template. They are
usually interpreted as plain text, except <tt class="docutils literal">$</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">`</tt>. You need to
use <tt class="docutils literal">\</tt> to escape them: <tt class="docutils literal">\$</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">\`</tt>. The <tt class="docutils literal">\</tt> itself may also
needed to be escaped as <tt class="docutils literal">\\</tt> sometimes.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="embedded-emacs-lisp-code">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">Embedded Emacs-lisp code</a></h2>
<p>Emacs-Lisp code can be embedded inside the template, written inside
back-quotes (<tt class="docutils literal">`</tt>). The lisp forms are evaluated when the snippet is
being expanded. The evaluation is done in the same buffer as the
snippet being expanded.</p>
<p>Here's an example for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c-mode</span></tt> to calculate the header file guard
dynamically:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">#ifndef ${1:_`(upcase (file-name-nondirectory (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name))))`_H_}
#define $1
$0
#endif /* $1 */
</pre></div>
<p>From version 0.6, snippets expansions are run with some special
Emacs-lisp variables bound. One of this is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/selected-text</span></tt>. You
can therefore define a snippet like:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">for ($1;$2;$3) {
`yas/selected-text`$0
}
</pre></div>
<p>to &quot;wrap&quot; the selected region inside your recently inserted
snippet. Alternatively, you can also customize the variable
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/wrap-around-region</span></tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">t</tt> which will do this automatically.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="tab-stop-fields">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">Tab stop fields</a></h2>
<p>Tab stops are fields that you can navigate back and forth by <tt class="docutils literal">TAB</tt>
and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">S-TAB</span></tt>. They are written by <tt class="docutils literal">$</tt> followed with a
number. <tt class="docutils literal">$0</tt> has the special meaning of the <em>exit point</em> of a
snippet. That is the last place to go when you've traveled all the
fields. Here's a typical example:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">&lt;div$1&gt;
$0
&lt;/div&gt;
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="placeholder-fields">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">Placeholder fields</a></h2>
<p>Tab stops can have default values -- a.k.a placeholders. The syntax is
like this:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">${N:default value}
</pre></div>
<p>They acts as the default value for a tab stop. But when you firstly
type at a tab stop, the default value will be replaced by your
typing. The number can be omitted if you don't want to create
<a class="reference internal" href="#mirrors">mirrors</a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#transformations">transformations</a> for this field.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id2">
<span id="mirrors"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19">Mirrors</a></h2>
<p>We refer the tab stops with placeholders as a <em>field</em>. A field can have
mirrors. Its mirrors will get updated when you change the text of a
field. Here's an example:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">\begin{${1:enumerate}}
$0
\end{$1}
</pre></div>
<p>When you type <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;document&quot;</tt> at <tt class="docutils literal">${1:enumerate}</tt>, the word
<tt class="docutils literal">&quot;document&quot;</tt> will also be inserted at <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">\end{$1}</span></tt>. The best
explanation is to see the screencast(<a class="reference external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOj7btx3ATg">YouTube</a> or <a class="reference external" href="http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/files/yasnippet.avi">avi video</a>).</p>
<p>The tab stops with the same number to the field act as its mirrors. If
none of the tab stops has an initial value, the first one is selected
as the field and others mirrors.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="mirrors-with-transformations">
<span id="transformations"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20">Mirrors with transformations</a></h2>
<p>If the value of an <tt class="docutils literal">${n:</tt>-construct starts with and contains <tt class="docutils literal">$(</tt>,
then it is interpreted as a mirror for field <tt class="docutils literal">n</tt> with a
transformation. The mirror's text content is calculated according to
this transformation, which is Emacs-lisp code that gets evaluated in
an environment where the variable <tt class="docutils literal">text</tt> (or <tt class="docutils literal">yas/text</tt>) is bound
to the text content (string) contained in the field <tt class="docutils literal">n</tt>.Here's an
example for Objective-C:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">- (${1:id})${2:foo}
{
return $2;
}
- (void)set${2:$(capitalize text)}:($1)aValue
{
[$2 autorelease];
$2 = [aValue retain];
}
$0
</pre></div>
<p>Look at <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">${2:$(capitalize</span> text)}</tt>, it is a mirror with
transformation instead of a field. The actual field is at the first
line: <tt class="docutils literal">${2:foo}</tt>. When you type text in <tt class="docutils literal">${2:foo}</tt>, the
transformation will be evaluated and the result will be placed there
as the transformed text. So in this example, if you type &quot;baz&quot; in the
field, the transformed text will be &quot;Baz&quot;. This example is also
available in the screencast.</p>
<p>Another example is for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">rst-mode</span></tt>. In reStructuredText, the document
title can be some text surrounded by &quot;===&quot; below and above. The &quot;===&quot;
should be at least as long as the text. So</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">=====
Title
=====
</pre></div>
<p>is a valid title but</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">===
Title
===
</pre></div>
<p>is not. Here's an snippet for rst title:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">${1:$(make-string (string-width text) ?\=)}
${1:Title}
${1:$(make-string (string-width text) ?\=)}
$0
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="fields-with-transformations">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21">Fields with transformations</a></h2>
<p>From version 0.6 on, you can also have lisp transformation inside
fields. These work mostly mirror transformations but are evaluated
when you first enter the field, after each change you make to the
field and also just before you exit the field.</p>
<p>The syntax is also a tiny bit different, so that the parser can
distinguish between fields and mirrors. In the following example</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">#define &quot;${1:mydefine$(upcase yas/text)}&quot;
</pre></div>
<p><tt class="docutils literal">mydefine</tt> gets automatically upcased to <tt class="docutils literal">MYDEFINE</tt> once you enter
the field. As you type text, it gets filtered through the
transformation every time.</p>
<p>Note that to tell this kind of expression from a mirror with a
transformation, YASnippet needs extra text between the <tt class="docutils literal">:</tt> and the
transformation's <tt class="docutils literal">$</tt>. If you don't want this extra-text, you can use
two <tt class="docutils literal">$</tt>'s instead.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">#define &quot;${1:$$(upcase yas/text)}&quot;
</pre></div>
<p>Please note that as soon as a transformation takes place, it changes
the value of the field and sets it its internal modification state to
<tt class="docutils literal">true</tt>. As a consequence, the auto-deletion behaviour of normal
fields does not take place. This is by design.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="choosing-fields-value-from-a-list-and-other-tricks">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">Choosing fields value from a list and other tricks</a></h2>
<p>As mentioned, the field transformation is invoked just after you enter
the field, and with some useful variables bound, notably
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/field-modified-p</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/moving-away-p</span></tt>. Because of this
feature you can place a transformation in the primary field that lets
you select default values for it.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/choose-value</span></tt> does this work for you. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">&lt;div align=&quot;${2:$$(yas/choose-value &#39;(&quot;right&quot; &quot;center&quot; &quot;left&quot;))}&quot;&gt;
$0
&lt;/div&gt;
</pre></div>
<p>See the definition of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/choose-value</span></tt> to see how it was written
using the two variables.</p>
<p>Here's another use, for LaTeX-mode, which calls reftex-label just as
you enter snippet field 2. This one makes use of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/modified-p</span></tt>
directly.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">\section{${1:&quot;Titel der Tour&quot;}}%
\index{$1}%
\label{{2:&quot;waiting for reftex-label call...&quot;$(unless yas/modified-p (reftex-label nil &#39;dont-
insert))}}%
</pre></div>
<p>The function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/verify-value</span></tt> has another neat trick, and makes
use of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/moving-away-p</span></tt>. Try it and see! Also, check out this
<a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet/browse_thread/thread/282a90a118e1b662">thread</a></p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="nested-placeholder-fields">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">Nested placeholder fields</a></h2>
<p>From version 0.6 on, you can also have nested placeholders of the type:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">&lt;div${1: id=&quot;${2:some_id}&quot;}&gt;$0&lt;/div&gt;
</pre></div>
<p>This allows you to choose if you want to give this <tt class="docutils literal">div</tt> an <tt class="docutils literal">id</tt>
attribute. If you tab forward after expanding it will let you change
&quot;some_id&quot; to whatever you like. Alternatively, you can just press
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-d</span></tt> (which executes <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/skip-and-clear-or-delete-char</span></tt>) and go
straight to the exit marker.</p>
<p>By the way, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-d</span></tt> will only clear the field if you cursor is at the
beginning of the field <em>and</em> it hasn't been changed yet. Otherwise, it
performs the normal Emacs <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">delete-char</span></tt> command.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="customizable-variables">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">Customizable variables</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="yas-trigger-key">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>The key bound to <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt> when function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> is
active.</p>
<p>Value is a string that is converted to the internal Emacs key
representation using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">read-kbd-macro</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Default value is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;TAB&quot;</tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-next-field-key">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id26"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/next-field-key</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>The key to navigate to next field when a snippet is active.</p>
<p>Value is a string that is converted to the internal Emacs key
representation using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">read-kbd-macro</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Can also be a list of keys.</p>
<p>Default value is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;TAB&quot;</tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-prev-field-key">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prev-field-key</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>The key to navigate to previous field when a snippet is active.</p>
<p>Value is a string that is converted to the internal Emacs key
representation using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">read-kbd-macro</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Can also be a list of keys.</p>
<p>Default value is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(&quot;&lt;backtab&gt;&quot;</span> <span class="pre">&quot;&lt;S-tab&gt;)&quot;</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-skip-and-clear-key">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/skip-and-clear-key</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>The key to clear the currently active field.</p>
<p>Value is a string that is converted to the internal Emacs key
representation using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">read-kbd-macro</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Can also be a list of keys.</p>
<p>Default value is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;C-d&quot;</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-good-grace">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/good-grace</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>If non-nil, don't raise errors in inline Emacs-lisp evaluation inside
snippet definitions. An error string &quot;[yas] error&quot; is returned instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-indent-line">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>The variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt> controls the indenting. It is bound
to <tt class="docutils literal">'auto</tt> by default, which causes your snippet to be indented
according to the mode of the buffer it was inserted in.</p>
<p>Another variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/also-auto-indent-first-line</span></tt>, when non-nil
does exactly that :-).</p>
<p>To use the hard-coded indentation in your snippet template, set this
variable to <tt class="docutils literal">fixed</tt>.</p>
<p>To control indentation on a per-snippet basis, see also the directive
<tt class="docutils literal"># <span class="pre">expand-env:</span></tt> in <a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing Snippets</a>.</p>
<p>For backward compatibility with earlier versions of YASnippet, you can
also place a <tt class="docutils literal">$&gt;</tt> in your snippet, an <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(indent-according-to-mode)</span></tt>
will be executed there to indent the line. This only takes effect when
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt> is set to something other than <tt class="docutils literal">'auto</tt>.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">for (${int i = 0}; ${i &lt; 10}; ${++i})
{$&gt;
$0$&gt;
}$&gt;
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-wrap-around-region">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/wrap-around-region</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>If non-nil, YASnippet will try to expand the snippet's exit marker
around the currently selected region. When this variable is set to t,
this has the same effect has using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">`yas/selected-text`</span></tt> inline
evaluation.</p>
<p>Because on most systems starting to type deletes the currently
selected region, this works mostly for snippets with direct
keybindings or with the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt> command.</p>
<p>However, when the value is of this variable is <tt class="docutils literal">cua</tt> YASnippet will
additionally look-up any recently selected that you deleted by starting
typing. This allows you select a region, type a snippet key (deleting
the region), then press <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt> to see the deleted region
spring back to life inside your new snippet.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-triggers-in-field">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id32"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/triggers-in-field</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>If non-nil, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/next-field-key</span></tt> can trigger stacked expansions,
that is a snippet expansion inside another snippet
expansion. Otherwise, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/next-field-key</span></tt> just tries to move on to
the next field.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-snippet-revival">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/snippet-revival</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>Non-nil means re-activate snippet fields after undo/redo.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-after-exit-snippet-hook-and-yas-before-expand-snippet-hook">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id34"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/after-exit-snippet-hook</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/before-expand-snippet-hook</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>These hooks are called, respectively, before the insertion of a
snippet and after exiting the snippet. If you find any strange but
functional use for them, that's probably a design flaw in YASnippet,
so let us know.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="importing-textmate-snippets">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id35">Importing TextMate snippets</a></h1>
<p>There are a couple of tools that take TextMate's &quot;.tmSnippet&quot; xml
files and create YASnippet definitions:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://code.nokrev.com/?p=snippet-copier.git;a=blob_plain;f=snippet_copier.py">a python script by Jeff Wheeler</a></li>
<li>a <a class="reference external" href="http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/extras/textmate_import.rb">ruby tool</a>
, <tt class="docutils literal">textmate_import.rb</tt> adapted from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.neutronflux.net/2009/07/28/shoulda-snippets-for-emacs/">Rob Christie's</a>,
which I have uploaded to the repository.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>In this section, i'll shortly cover the <strong>second</strong> option.</p>
<p>Download the <tt class="docutils literal">textmate_import.rb</tt> tool and the TextMate
bundle you're interested in.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">$ curl -O http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/extras/textmate_import.rb
$ svn export http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Bundles/HTML.tmbundle/
</pre></div>
<p>Then invoke <tt class="docutils literal">textmate_import.rb</tt> like this:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">$ ./textmate_import.rb -d HTML.tmbundle/Snippets/ -o html-mode -g HTML.tmbundle/info.plist
</pre></div>
<p>You should end up with a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html-mode</span></tt> subdir containing snippets
exported from textmate.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">$ tree html-mode # to view dir contents, if you have &#39;tree&#39; installed
</pre></div>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-g</span></tt> is optional but helps the tool figure out the grouping.
According to <a class="reference external" href="snippet-organization.html">Organizing Snippets</a>, don't forget to touch
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-make-groups</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-ignore-filename-triggers</span></tt> inside the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html-mode</span></tt> dir.</p>
<p>Also try <tt class="docutils literal">textmate_import.rb <span class="pre">--help</span></tt> for a list of options.</p>
<p>Please note that snippet importation is not yet perfect. You'll
probably have some adjustments to some/many snippets. Please
contribute these adjustments to the google group or, better yet, patch
the <tt class="docutils literal">textmate_import.rb</tt> to automatically perform them and submit
that.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#triggering-expansion" id="id2">Triggering expansion</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#trigger-key" id="id3">Trigger key</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#fallback-bahaviour" id="id4">Fallback bahaviour</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#insert-at-point" id="id5">Insert at point</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#snippet-keybinding" id="id6">Snippet keybinding</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#expanding-from-the-menu" id="id7">Expanding from the menu</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#expanding-with-hippie-expand" id="id8">Expanding with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hippie-expand</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#expanding-from-emacs-lisp-code" id="id9">Expanding from emacs-lisp code</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#controlling-expansion" id="id10">Controlling expansion</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#eligible-snippets" id="id11">Eligible snippets</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#the-condition-system" id="id12">The condition system</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#multiples-snippet-with-the-same-key" id="id13">Multiples snippet with the same key</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#use-the-x-window-system" id="id14">Use the X window system</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#minibuffer-prompting" id="id15">Minibuffer prompting</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#use-dropdown-menu-el" id="id16">Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dropdown-menu.el</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#roll-your-own" id="id17">Roll your own</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#customizable-variables" id="id18">Customizable Variables</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-prompt-functions" id="id19"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-fallback-behavior" id="id20"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/fallback-behavior</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-choose-keys-first" id="id21"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/choose-keys-first</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-choose-tables-first" id="id22"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/choose-tables-first</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-key-syntaxes" id="id23"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/key-syntaxes</span></tt></a></li>
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<div class="section" id="triggering-expansion">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Triggering expansion</a></h1>
<p>You can use YASnippet to expand snippets in different ways:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>By typing an abbrev, the snippet <em>trigger key</em>, and then pressing
the key defined in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt> (which defaults to
&quot;TAB&quot;). This works in buffers where the minor mode
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> is active;</li>
<li>By invoking the command <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt> (either by typing
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt> or its keybinding). This does <em>not</em>
require <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> to be active.</li>
<li>By using the keybinding associated with an active snippet. This also
requires <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> to be active;</li>
<li>By expanding directly from the &quot;YASnippet&quot; menu in the menu-bar</li>
<li>By using hippie-expand</li>
<li>Expanding from emacs-lisp code</li>
</ul>
<div class="section" id="trigger-key">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Trigger key</a></h2>
<p>When <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> is enabled, the keybinding taken from
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt> will take effect.</p>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt> invokes <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt>, which tries to expand a
<em>snippet abbrev</em> (also known as <em>snippet key</em>) before point.</p>
<p>The default key is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;TAB&quot;</tt>, however, you can freely set it to some
other key.</p>
<img alt="images/minor-mode-indicator.png" class="align-left" src="images/minor-mode-indicator.png" />
<p>To enable the YASnippet minor mode in all buffers globally use the
command <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/global-mode</span></tt>.</p>
<p>When you use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/global-mode</span></tt> you can also selectively disable
YASnippet in some buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/dont-active</span></tt> in the buffer's mode hook.</p>
<p>Trouble when using or understanding the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt> is easily
the most controversial issue in YASsnippet. See the <a class="reference external" href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="fallback-bahaviour">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Fallback bahaviour</a></h3>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/fallback-behaviour</span></tt> is a customization variable bound to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'call-other-command</span></tt> by default. If <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt> failed to find
any suitable snippet to expand, it will disable the minor mode
temporarily and find if there's any other command bound the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt>.</p>
<p>If found, the command will be called. Usually this works very well --
when there's a snippet, expand it, otherwise, call whatever command
originally bind to the trigger key.</p>
<p>However, you can change this behavior by customizing the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/fallback-behavior</span></tt> variable. If you set this variable to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'return-nil</span></tt>, it will return <tt class="docutils literal">nil</tt> instead of trying to call the
<em>original</em> command when no snippet is found.</p>
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<div class="section" id="insert-at-point">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Insert at point</a></h2>
<p>The command <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt> lets you insert snippets at
point <em>for you current major mode</em>. It prompts you for the snippet
key first, and then for a snippet template if more than one template
exists for the same key.</p>
<p>The list presented contains the snippets that can be inserted at
point, according to the condition system. If you want to see all
applicable snippets for the major mode, prefix this command with
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-u</span></tt>.</p>
<p>The prompting methods used are again controlled by
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="snippet-keybinding">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Snippet keybinding</a></h2>
<p>See the section of the <tt class="docutils literal"># binding:</tt> directive in <a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing
Snippets</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="expanding-from-the-menu">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Expanding from the menu</a></h2>
<p>See <a class="reference external" href="snippet-menu.html">the YASnippet Menu</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="expanding-with-hippie-expand">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Expanding with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hippie-expand</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>To integrate with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hippie-expand</span></tt>, just put
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/hippie-try-expand</span></tt> in
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hippie-expand-try-functions-list</span></tt>. This probably makes more sense
when placed at the top of the list, but it can be put anywhere you
prefer.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="expanding-from-emacs-lisp-code">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">Expanding from emacs-lisp code</a></h2>
<p>Sometimes you might want to expand a snippet directly from you own
elisp code. You should call <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/expand-snippet</span></tt> instead of
<tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt> in this case.</p>
<p>As with expanding from the menubar, the condition system and multiple
candidates doesn't affect expansion. In fact, expanding from the
YASnippet menu has the same effect of evaluating the follow code:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(<span style="color: #19177C">yas/expand-snippet</span> <span style="color: #19177C">template</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>See the internal documentation on <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/expand-snippet</span></tt> for more
information.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="controlling-expansion">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">Controlling expansion</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="eligible-snippets">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">Eligible snippets</a></h2>
<p>YASnippet does quite a bit of filtering to find out which snippets are
eligible for expanding at the current cursor position.</p>
<p>In particular, the following things matter:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Currently loaded snippets tables</p>
<p>These are loaded from a directory hierarchy in your file system. See
<a class="reference external" href="snippet-organization.html">Organizing Snippets</a>. They are named after major modes like
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">html-mode</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ruby-mode</span></tt>, etc...</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Major mode of the current buffer</p>
<p>If the currrent major mode matches one of the loaded snippet tables,
then all that table's snippets are considered for expansion. Use
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">describe-variable</span> RET <span class="pre">major-mode</span> RET</tt> to find out which major
mode you are in currently.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Parent tables</p>
<p>Snippet tables defined as the parent of some other eligible table
are also considered. This works recursively, i.e. parents of parents
of eligible tables are also considered.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Buffer-local <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/mode-symbol</span></tt> variable</p>
<p>This can be used to consider snippet tables whose name does not
correspond to a major mode. If you set this variable to a name ,
like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">rinari-minor-mode</span></tt>, you can have some snippets expand only
in that minor mode. Naturally, you want to set this conditionally,
i.e. only when entering that minor mode, so using a hook is a good
idea.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; When entering rinari-minor-mode, consider also the snippets in the</span>
<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; snippet table &quot;rails-mode&quot;</span>
(<span style="color: #19177C">add-hook</span> <span style="color: #19177C">&#39;rinari-minor-mode-hook</span>
<span style="color: #0000FF">#&#39;</span>(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">lambda</span> ()
(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">setq</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/mode-symbol</span> <span style="color: #19177C">&#39;rails-mode</span>)))
</pre></div>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Buffer-local <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/buffer-local-condition</span></tt> variable</p>
<p>This variable provides finer grained control over what snippets can
be expanded in the current buffer. The default value won't let you
expand snippets inside comments or string literals for example. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#the-condition-system">The condition system</a> for more info.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="the-condition-system">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">The condition system</a></h2>
<p>Consider this scenario: you are an old Emacs hacker. You like the
abbrev-way and set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;SPC&quot;</tt>. However,
you don't want <tt class="docutils literal">if</tt> to be expanded as a snippet when you are typing
in a comment block or a string (e.g. in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-mode</span></tt>).</p>
<p>If you use the <tt class="docutils literal"># condition :</tt> directive (see <a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing Snippets</a>)
you could just specify the condition for <tt class="docutils literal">if</tt> to be <tt class="docutils literal">(not
<span class="pre">(python-in-string/comment))</span></tt>. But how about <tt class="docutils literal">while</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">for</tt>,
etc. ? Writing the same condition for all the snippets is just
boring. So has a buffer local variable
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/buffer-local-condition</span></tt>. You can set this variable to <tt class="docutils literal">(not
<span class="pre">(python-in-string/comment))</span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-mode-hook</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Then, what if you really want some particular snippet to expand even
inside a comment? This is also possible! But let's stop telling the
story and look at the rules:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/buffer-local-condition</span></tt> evaluate to nil, no snippets will
be considered for expansion.</li>
<li>If it evaluates to the a <em>cons cell</em> where the <tt class="docutils literal">car</tt> is the symbol
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">require-snippet-condition</span></tt> and the <tt class="docutils literal">cdr</tt> is a symbol (let's
call it <tt class="docutils literal">requirement</tt>), then:<ul>
<li>Snippets having no <tt class="docutils literal"># condition:</tt> directive won't be considered;</li>
<li>Snippets with conditions that evaluate to nil (or produce an
error) won't be considered;</li>
<li>If the snippet has a condition that evaluates to non-nil (let's
call it <tt class="docutils literal">result</tt>):<ul>
<li>If <tt class="docutils literal">requirement</tt> is <tt class="docutils literal">t</tt>, the snippet is ready to be
expanded;</li>
<li>If <tt class="docutils literal">requirement</tt> is <tt class="docutils literal">eq</tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">result</tt>, the snippet is ready
to be expanded;</li>
<li>Otherwise the snippet won't be considered.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>If it evaluates to the symbol <tt class="docutils literal">always</tt>, all snippets are
considered for expansion, regardless of any conditions.</li>
<li>If it evaluate to <tt class="docutils literal">t</tt> or some other non-nil value:<ul>
<li>If the snippet has no condition, or has a condition that evaluate
to non-nil, it is ready to be expanded.</li>
<li>Otherwise, it won't be considered.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>In the mentioned scenario, set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/buffer-local-condition</span></tt> like
this</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(<span style="color: #19177C">add-hook</span> <span style="color: #19177C">&#39;python-mode-hook</span>
<span style="color: #666666">&#39;</span>(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">lambda</span> ()
(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">setq</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/buffer-local-condition</span>
<span style="color: #666666">&#39;</span>(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">if</span> (<span style="color: #19177C">python-in-string/comment</span>)
<span style="color: #666666">&#39;</span>(<span style="color: #19177C">require-snippet-condition</span> <span style="color: #666666">.</span> <span style="color: #19177C">force-in-comment</span>)
<span style="color: #880000">t</span>))))
</pre></div>
<p>... and specify the condition for a snippet that you're going to
expand in comment to be evaluated to the symbol
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">force-in-comment</span></tt>. Then it can be expanded as you expected, while
other snippets like <tt class="docutils literal">if</tt> still can't expanded in comment.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="multiples-snippet-with-the-same-key">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">Multiples snippet with the same key</a></h2>
<p>The rules outlined <a class="reference external" href="Eligiblesnippets">above</a> can return more than
one snippet to be expanded at point.</p>
<p>When there are multiple candidates, YASnippet will let you select
one. The UI for selecting multiple candidate can be customized through
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt> , which defines your preferred methods of
being prompted for snippets.</p>
<p>You can customize it with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">customize-variable</span> RET
<span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span> RET</tt>. Alternatively you can put in your
emacs-file:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">setq</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/prompt-functions</span> <span style="color: #666666">&#39;</span>(<span style="color: #19177C">yas/x-prompt</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/dropdown-prompt</span>))
</pre></div>
<p>Currently there are some alternatives solution with YASnippet.</p>
<img alt="images/x-menu.png" class="align-right" src="images/x-menu.png" />
<div class="section" id="use-the-x-window-system">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">Use the X window system</a></h3>
<p>The function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/x-prompt</span></tt> can be used to show a popup menu for you
to select. This menu will be part of you native window system widget,
which means:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>It usually looks beautiful. E.g. when you compile Emacs with gtk
support, this menu will be rendered with your gtk theme.</li>
<li>Your window system may or may not allow to you use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-n</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-p</span></tt>
to navigate this menu.</li>
<li>This function can't be used when in a terminal.</li>
</ul>
<img alt="images/ido-menu.png" class="align-right" src="images/ido-menu.png" />
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<div class="section" id="minibuffer-prompting">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">Minibuffer prompting</a></h3>
<p>You can use functions <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/completing-prompt</span></tt> for the classic emacs
completion method or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/ido-prompt</span></tt> for a much nicer looking
method. The best way is to try it. This works in a terminal.</p>
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<div class="section" id="use-dropdown-menu-el">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dropdown-menu.el</span></tt></a></h3>
<p>The function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/dropdown-prompt</span></tt> can also be placed in the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt> list.</p>
<p>This works in both window system and terminal and is customizable, you
can use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-n</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C-p</span></tt> to navigate, <tt class="docutils literal">q</tt> to quit and even press
<tt class="docutils literal">6</tt> as a shortcut to select the 6th candidate.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="roll-your-own">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">Roll your own</a></h3>
<p>See below for the documentation on variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt></p>
</div>
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<div class="section" id="customizable-variables">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">Customizable Variables</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="yas-prompt-functions">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>You can write a function and add it to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt>
list. These functions are called with the following arguments:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>PROMPT: A string to prompt the user;</li>
<li>CHOICES: A list of strings or objects;</li>
<li>optional DISPLAY-FN : A function. When applied to each of the
objects in CHOICES it will return a string;</li>
</ul>
<p>The return value of any function you put here should be one of
the objects in CHOICES, properly formatted with DISPLAY-FN (if
that is passed).</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>To signal that your particular style of prompting is unavailable at
the moment, you can also have the function return nil.</li>
<li>To signal that the user quit the prompting process, you can signal
<tt class="docutils literal">quit</tt> with <tt class="docutils literal">(signal 'quit &quot;user <span class="pre">quit!&quot;)</span></tt></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="yas-fallback-behavior">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/fallback-behavior</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>How to act when <tt class="docutils literal">yas/expand</tt> does <em>not</em> expand a snippet.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">call-other-command</span></tt> means try to temporarily disable YASnippet and</dt>
<dd>call the next command bound to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/trigger-key</span></tt>.</dd>
</dl>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">return-nil</span></tt> means return nil. (i.e. do nothing)</p>
<p>An entry (apply COMMAND . ARGS) means interactively call COMMAND, if
ARGS is non-nil, call COMMAND non-interactively with ARGS as
arguments.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-choose-keys-first">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/choose-keys-first</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>If non-nil, prompt for snippet key first, then for template.</p>
<p>Otherwise prompts for all possible snippet names.</p>
<p>This affects <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/visit-snippet-file</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-choose-tables-first">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/choose-tables-first</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>If non-nil, and multiple eligible snippet tables, prompts user for
tables first.</p>
<p>Otherwise, user chooses between the merging together of all
eligible tables.</p>
<p>This affects <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/insert-snippet</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/visit-snippet-file</span></tt></p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yas-key-syntaxes">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/key-syntaxes</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>The default searching strategy is quite powerful. For example, in
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c-mode</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">bar</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">foo_bar</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;#foo_bar&quot;</tt> can all be recognized
as a snippet key. Furthermore, the searching is in that order. In
other words, if <tt class="docutils literal">bar</tt> is found to be a key to some <em>valid</em> snippet,
then that snippet is expanded and replaces the <tt class="docutils literal">bar</tt>. Snippets
pointed to by <tt class="docutils literal">foo_bar</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;#foobar</tt> won't be considered.</p>
<p>However, this strategy can also be customized easily from the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/key-syntaxes</span></tt> variable. It is a list of syntax rules, the
default value is <tt class="docutils literal">(&quot;w&quot; &quot;w_&quot; &quot;w_.&quot; &quot;^ &quot;)</tt>. Which means search the
following thing until found one:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>a word.</li>
<li>a symbol. In lisp, <tt class="docutils literal">-</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">?</tt> can all be part of a symbol.</li>
<li>a sequence of characters of either word, symbol or punctuation.</li>
<li>a sequence of characters of non-whitespace characters.</li>
</ul>
<p>But you'd better keep the default value unless you want to understand
how Emacs's syntax rules work...</p>
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<h1 class="title">YASnippet menu</h1>
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<a title="" href="index.html">Intro and tutorial</a>
</li>
<li>
<a title="" href="snippet-organization.html">Howto: organize</a>
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<li>
<a title="" href="snippet-expansion.html">Howto: expand</a>
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<b>Important:</b> This documentation applies to
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get <a href="http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/source/checkout">here</a>. Documentation
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<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#loading-snippets-from-menu" id="id1">Loading snippets from menu</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#snippet-menu-behavior" id="id2">Snippet menu behavior</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#controlling-indenting" id="id3">Controlling indenting</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#prompting-method" id="id4">Prompting method</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#misc" id="id5">Misc</a></li>
</ul>
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<p>When <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/minor-mode</span></tt> is active, YASnippet will setup a menu just
after the &quot;Buffers&quot; menu in the menubar.</p>
<p>In this menu, you can find</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The currently loaded snippet definitions, organized by major mode,
and optional grouping.</li>
<li>A rundown of the most common commands, (followed by their
keybindings) including commands to load directories and reload all
snippet definitions.</li>
<li>A series of submenus for customizing and exploring YASnippet
behavior.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="loading-snippets-from-menu">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">Loading snippets from menu</a></h1>
<p>Invoking &quot;Load snippets...&quot; from the menu invokes
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/load-directory</span></tt> and prompts you for a snippet directory
hierarchy to load.</p>
<p>Also useful is the &quot;Reload all&quot; options which uncondionally reloads
all the snippets directories defined in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/root-directory</span></tt> and
rebuilds the menus.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="snippet-menu-behavior">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Snippet menu behavior</a></h1>
<p>YASnippet will list in this section all the loaded snippet definitions
organized by snippet table name.</p>
<p>You can use this section to explore currently loaded snippets. If you
click on one of them, the default behavior is to expand it,
unconditionally, inside the current buffer.</p>
<p>You can however, customize variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/visit-from-menu</span></tt> to be
<tt class="docutils literal">t</tt> which will take you to the snippet definition file when you
select it from the menu.</p>
<p>If you want the menu show only snippet tables whose name corresponds
to a &quot;real&quot; major mode. You do this by setting <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/use-menu</span></tt> to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'real-modes</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Finally, to have the menu show only the tables for the currently
active mode, set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/use-menu</span></tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">abbreviate</tt>.</p>
<p>These customizations can also be found in the menu itself, under the
&quot;Snippet menu behavior&quot; submenu.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="controlling-indenting">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Controlling indenting</a></h1>
<p>The &quot;Indenting&quot; submenu contains options to control the values of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/indent-line</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/also-auto-indent-first-line</span></tt>. See
<a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing snippets</a> .</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="prompting-method">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Prompting method</a></h1>
<p>The &quot;Prompting method&quot; submenu contains options to control the value
of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/prompt-functions</span></tt>. See <a class="reference external" href="snippet-expansion.html">Expanding snippets</a> .</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="misc">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Misc</a></h1>
<p>The &quot;Misc&quot; submenu contains options to control the values of more
variables.</p>
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<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#loading-snippets" id="id3">Loading snippets</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id2" id="id4">Organizing snippets</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#the-yas-parents-file" id="id5">The <tt class="docutils literal">.yas.parents</tt> file</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#the-yas-make-groups-file" id="id6">The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-make-groups</span></tt> file</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yasnippet-bundle" id="id7">YASnippet bundle</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#customizable-variables" id="id8">Customizable variables</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-root-directory" id="id9"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/root-directory</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yas-ignore-filenames-as-triggers" id="id10"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/ignore-filenames-as-triggers</span></tt></a></li>
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<div class="section" id="loading-snippets">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Loading snippets</a></h1>
<p>Snippet definitions are stored in files in the filesystem. Unless you
use the simpler <a class="reference external" href="mailto:index.html&#64;installation">bundle version</a>), these
are arranged so that YASnippet can load them into <em>snippet
tables</em>. The triggering mechanisms (see <a class="reference external" href="snippet-expansion.html">Expanding snippets</a>) will
look up these snippet tables and (hopefully) expand the snippet you
intended.</p>
<p>The non-bundle version of YASnippet, once unpacked, comes with a full
directory of snippets, which you can copy somewhere and use. You can
also create or download more directories.</p>
<p>Once these directories are in place reference them in the variable
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/root-directory</span></tt> and load them with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/load-directory</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; Develop and keep personal snippets under ~/emacs.d/mysnippets</span>
(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">setq</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/root-directory</span> <span style="color: #BA2121">&quot;~/emacs.d/mysnippets&quot;</span>)
<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; Load the snippets</span>
(<span style="color: #19177C">yas/load-directory</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/root-directory</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>The point in using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/root-directory</span></tt> (as opposed to calling
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/load-directory</span></tt> directly) is considering &quot;~/emacs.d/mysnippets&quot;
for snippet development, so you can use commands like
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/new-snippet</span></tt> and others described in section <a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing
Snippets</a>.</p>
<p>You can make this variable a list and store more items into it:</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; Develop in ~/emacs.d/mysnippets, but also</span>
<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; try out snippets in ~/Downloads/interesting-snippets</span>
(<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">setq</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/root-directory</span> <span style="color: #666666">&#39;</span>(<span style="color: #BA2121">&quot;~/emacs.d/mysnippets&quot;</span>
<span style="color: #BA2121">&quot;~/Downloads/interesting-snippets&quot;</span>))
<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic">;; Map `yas/load-directory&#39; to every element</span>
(<span style="color: #008000">mapc</span> <span style="color: #19177C">&#39;yas/load-directory</span> <span style="color: #19177C">yas/root-directory</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>In this last example, the all the directories are loaded and their
snippets considered for expansion. However development still happens
in the first element, &quot;~/emacs.d/mysnippets&quot;.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id2">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Organizing snippets</a></h1>
<p>Once you've setup <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/root-directory</span></tt> , you can store snippets
inside sub-directories of these directories.</p>
<p>Snippet definitions are put in plain text files. They are arranged
by sub-directories, and the snippet tables are named after these
directories.</p>
<p>The name corresponds to the Emacs mode where you want expansion to
take place. For example, snippets for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c-mode</span></tt> are put in the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c-mode</span></tt> sub-directory.</p>
<div class="section" id="the-yas-parents-file">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">The <tt class="docutils literal">.yas.parents</tt> file</a></h2>
<p>It's very useful to have certain modes share snippets between
themselves. To do this, choose a mode subdirectory and place a
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-parents</span></tt> containing a whitespace-separated list of other
mode names. When you reload those modes become parents of the
original mode.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">$ tree
.
|-- c-mode
| |-- .yas-parents # contains &quot;cc-mode text-mode&quot;
| `-- printf
|-- cc-mode
| |-- for
| `-- while
|-- java-mode
| |-- .yas-parents # contains &quot;cc-mode text-mode&quot;
| `-- println
`-- text-mode
|-- email
`-- time
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="the-yas-make-groups-file">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-make-groups</span></tt> file</a></h2>
<img alt="images/menu-groups.png" class="align-right" src="images/menu-groups.png" />
<p>If you place an empty plain text file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.yas-make-groups</span></tt> inside one
of the mode directories, the names of these sub-directories are
considered groups of snippets and <a class="reference external" href="snippet-menu.html">The YASnippet Menu</a> is organized
much more cleanly, as you can see in the image.</p>
<p>Another alternative way to achieve this is to place a <tt class="docutils literal"># group:</tt>
directive inside the snippet definition. See <a class="reference external" href="snippet-development.html">Writing Snippets</a>.</p>
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">$ tree ruby-mode/
ruby-mode/
|-- .yas-make-groups
|-- collections
| |-- each
| `-- ...
|-- control structure
| |-- forin
| `-- ...
|-- definitions
| `-- ...
`-- general
`-- ...
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="yasnippet-bundle">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">YASnippet bundle</a></h1>
<p>The most convenient way to define snippets for YASnippet is to put
them in a directory arranged by the mode and use
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/load-directory</span></tt> to load them.</p>
<p>However, this might slow down the Emacs start-up speed if you have many
snippets. You can use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/define-snippets</span></tt> to define a bunch of
snippets for a particular mode in an Emacs-lisp file.</p>
<p>Since this is hard to maintain, there's a better way: define your
snippets in directory and then call <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">yas/compile-bundle</span></tt> to
compile it into a bundle file when you modified your snippets.</p>
<p>The release bundle of YASnippet is produced by
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/compile-bundle</span></tt>. The bundle uses <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/define-snippets</span></tt> to
define snippets. This avoids the IO and parsing overhead when loading
snippets.</p>
<p>Further more, the generated bundle is a stand-alone file not depending
on <tt class="docutils literal">yasnippet.el</tt>. The released bundles of YASnippet are all
generated this way.</p>
<p>See the internal documentation for these functions</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">describe-function</span> RET <span class="pre">yas/define-snippets</span> RET</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">M-x</span> <span class="pre">describe-function</span> RET <span class="pre">yas/compile-bundle</span> RET</tt>.</li>
</ul>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Customizable variables</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="yas-root-directory">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/root-directory</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>Root directory that stores the snippets for each major mode.</p>
<p>If you set this from your .emacs, can also be a list of strings,
for multiple root directories. If you make this a list, the first
element is always the user-created snippets directory. Other
directories are used for bulk reloading of all snippets using
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/reload-all</span></tt></p>
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<div class="section" id="yas-ignore-filenames-as-triggers">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yas/ignore-filenames-as-triggers</span></tt></a></h2>
<p>If non-nil, don't derive tab triggers from filenames.</p>
<p>This means a snippet without a <tt class="docutils literal"># key:</tt> directive wont have a tab
trigger.</p>
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