YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates. Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby,

SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more. The snippet syntax is inspired from TextMate's syntax, you can even import most TextMate templates to YASnippet. Watch a demo on YouTube or download a higher resolution version

Install the most recent version

Clone this repository somewhere

$ cd ~/.emacs.d/plugins 
$ git clone https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet

Add the following in your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path
              "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet")
(require 'yasnippet) ;; not yasnippet-bundle
(yas/global-mode 1)

Add your own snippets to ~/.emacs.d/snippets by placing files there or invoking yas/new-snippet.

Install yasnippet with el-get

El-get is a nice way to get the most recent version, too

See https://github.com/dimitri/el-get for instructions

How-tos, Bugs, Contributions...

Please refer to the comprehensive [documentation] docs for full customization and support. If you find a bug, please report it on the GitHub issue tracker. (please do not submit new issues to the old googlecode tracker)

If you run into problems using YASnippet, or have snippets to contribute, post to the yasnippet google group. Thank you very much for using YASnippet!