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<h1 class="title">Organizing snippets</h1>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-1">Basic structure</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-2">Setting up <code>yas-snippet-dirs</code></a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-3">The <code>.yas-parents</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-4">The <code>.yas-make-groups</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-5">The <code>.yas-setup.el</code> file</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-5-1"></a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec-6">The <code>.yas-compiled-snippet.el</code> file</a>
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<li><a href="#sec-6-1"></a></li>
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</li>
<li><a href="#sec-7">The <code>.yas-skip</code> file</a>
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<li><a href="#sec-7-1"></a></li>
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<h2 id="sec-1">Basic structure</h2>
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<p>
Snippet collections can be stored in plain text files. They are arranged by
sub-directories naming <b>snippet tables</b>. These mostly name Emacs major names.
</p>
<pre class="example">.
|-- c-mode
| `-- printf
|-- java-mode
| `-- println
`-- text-mode
|-- email
`-- time
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<p>
The collections are loaded into <b>snippet tables</b> which the
triggering mechanism (see <a href="snippet-expansion.html">Expanding Snippets</a>) looks up and
(hopefully) causes the right snippet to be expanded for you.
</p>
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<h2 id="sec-2">Setting up <code>yas-snippet-dirs</code></h2>
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<p>
The emacs variable <a href="snippet-reference.html#yas-snippet-dirs"><code>yas-snippet-dirs</code></a> tells YASnippet
which collections to consider. It's used when you activate
<a href="snippet-reference.html#yas-global-mode"><code>yas-global-mode</code></a> or call
<a href="snippet-reference.html#yas-reload-all"><code>yas-reload-all</code></a> interactively.
</p>
<p>
The default considers:
</p>
<ul>
<li>a personal collection that lives in <code>~/.emacs.d/snippets</code>
</li>
<li>the bundled collection, taken as a relative path to <code>yasnippet.el</code> localtion
</li>
</ul>
<p>
When you come across other snippet collections, do the following to try them
out:
</p>
<pre class="example">;; Develop in ~/emacs.d/mysnippets, but also
;; try out snippets in ~/Downloads/interesting-snippets
(setq yas-snippet-dirs '("~/emacs.d/mysnippets"
"~/Downloads/interesting-snippets"))
;; OR, keeping YASnippet defaults try out ~/Downloads/interesting-snippets
(setq yas-snippet-dirs (append yas-snippet-dirs
'("~/Downloads/interesting-snippets")))
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<p>
Collections appearing earlier in the list shadow snippets with same names
appearing in collections later in the list. <a href="snippet-reference.html#yas-new-snippet"><code>yas-new-snippet</code></a> always stores
snippets in the first collection.
</p>
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<h2 id="sec-3">The <code>.yas-parents</code> file</h2>
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<p>
It's very useful to have certain modes share snippets between
themselves. To do this, choose a mode subdirectory and place a
<code>.yas-parents</code> containing a whitespace-separated list of other mode
names. When you reload those modes become parents of the original
mode.
</p>
<pre class="example">.
|-- c-mode
| |-- .yas-parents # contains "cc-mode text-mode"
| `-- printf
|-- cc-mode
| |-- for
| `-- while
|-- java-mode
| |-- .yas-parents # contains "cc-mode text-mode"
| `-- println
`-- text-mode
|-- email
`-- time
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<h2 id="sec-4"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> The <code>.yas-make-groups</code> file</h2>
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<p>
If you place an empty plain text file <code>.yas-make-groups</code> inside one
of the mode directories, the names of these sub-directories are
considered groups of snippets and <a href="#snippet-menu.org">the menu</a> is organized much more
cleanly:
</p>
<p>
<img src="./images/menu-groups.png" alt="./images/menu-groups.png" />
</p>
<p>
Another way to achieve this is to place a <code># group:</code> directive
inside the snippet definition. See <a href="./snippet-development.html">Writing Snippets</a>.
</p>
<pre class="example">$ tree ruby-mode/
ruby-mode/
|-- .yas-make-groups
|-- collections
| |-- each
| `-- ...
|-- control structure
| |-- forin
| `-- ...
|-- definitions
| `-- ...
`-- general
`-- ...
</pre>
<p>
Yet another way to create a nice snippet menu is to write into
<code>.yas-make-groups</code> a menu definition. TODO
</p>
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<h2 id="sec-5"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> The <code>.yas-setup.el</code> file</h2>
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<h3 id="sec-5-1"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span></h3>
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<h2 id="sec-6"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> The <code>.yas-compiled-snippet.el</code> file</h2>
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<h3 id="sec-6-1"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span></h3>
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<h2 id="sec-7"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> The <code>.yas-skip</code> file</h2>
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<h3 id="sec-7-1"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span></h3>
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