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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 [http://manual.macromates.com/en/snippets TextMate's] syntax, you can even [http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/snippet-development.html#importing-textmate-snippets import] most !TextMate templates to YASnippet. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ygeg9miao a demo at YouTube] or download a higher resolution version ([http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/files/yas_demo.avi yas_demo.avi])
====Install with yasnippet-bundle.el====
To quickly tryout YASnippet, download the simpler "bundle" version. If you plan to modify the bundled templates and/or build your own, download the "normal" package.
Download yasnippet-bundle on the right sidebar and unpack it.
You'll get a file named yasnippet-bundle.el, put it in ~/.emacs.d/plugins/ (create that directory if not exists).
Open the file in Emacs, and type Alt+x eval-buffer.
That's it. Now open any file, you'll see a menu "YASnippet". You can pull down the menu to insert a template. Or, you can type a pre-defined abbrev and press TAB to expand it!
To have Emacs load YASnippet automatically when it starts, put the following in your /.emacs file:
{{{
(add-to-list 'load-path
"/.emacs.d/plugins")
(require 'yasnippet-bundle)
}}}
==== Normal install ====
To install the normal archive, download and unpack the
latest yasnippet-x.y.z.tar.bz2. You'll get a directory named
yasnippet-x.y.z, put it in your /.emacs.d/plugins and add the following in
your .emacs file:
{{{
(add-to-list 'load-path
"/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-x.y.z")
(require 'yasnippet) ;; not yasnippet-bundle
(yas/initialize)
(yas/load-directory "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-x.y.z/snippets")
}}}
====How-tos, Bugs, Contributions...====
Please refer to the comprehensive [http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/index.html documentation] for full customization and support. If you find a bug, please report it at [http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/issues/list issues list]. If you run into problems using YASnippet, or have snippets to contribute, post to the [http://groups.google.com/group/smart-snippet yasnippet google group]. Thank you very much for using YASnippet!