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<li> <a href="index.html">Overview</a>
<li> <a href="https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/blob/master/README.mdown">
Intro and Tutorial</a>
<li class="center border">Snippet
<ul class="nopad">
<li> <span class='current'>Organization</span>
<li> <a href="snippet-expansion.html">Expansion</a>
<li> <a href="snippet-development.html">Development</a>
<li> <a href="snippet-menu.html">Menu</a>
</ul>
<li> <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>
<li> <a href="snippet-reference.html">Reference</a>
</ul>
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<div id="content">
<h1 class="title">Organizing snippets</h1>
<div id="table-of-contents">
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<div id="text-table-of-contents">
<ul>
<li><a href="#org91b0471">Basic structure</a></li>
<li><a href="#org10ee311">Setting up <code>yas-snippet-dirs</code></a></li>
<li><a href="#org7468fa9">The <code>.yas-parents</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#orgac3b0a5"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> The <code>.yas-make-groups</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#orge57abf6">The <code>.yas-setup.el</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#org40a5619">The <code>.yas-compiled-snippet.el</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#org2f7147a">The <code>.yas-skip</code> file</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="org91b0471">Basic structure</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org91b0471">
<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 mode names.
</p>
<pre class="example">
.
|-- c-mode
| `-- printf
|-- java-mode
| `-- println
`-- text-mode
|-- email
`-- time
</pre>
<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="org10ee311">Setting up <code>yas-snippet-dirs</code></h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org10ee311">
<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 class="org-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>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp"><span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">Develop in ~/emacs.d/mysnippets, but also</span>
<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">try out snippets in ~/Downloads/interesting-snippets</span>
(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> yas-snippet-dirs '(<span class="org-string">"~/emacs.d/mysnippets"</span>
<span class="org-string">"~/Downloads/interesting-snippets"</span>))
<span class="org-comment-delimiter">;; </span><span class="org-comment">OR, keeping YASnippet defaults try out ~/Downloads/interesting-snippets</span>
(<span class="org-keyword">setq</span> yas-snippet-dirs (append yas-snippet-dirs
'(<span class="org-string">"~/Downloads/interesting-snippets"</span>)))
</pre>
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<p>
Collections appearing earlier in the list override 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="org7468fa9">The <code>.yas-parents</code> file</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org7468fa9">
<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
</pre>
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<div id="outline-container-orgac3b0a5" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="orgac3b0a5"><span class="todo TODO">TODO</span> The <code>.yas-make-groups</code> file</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgac3b0a5">
<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.html">the menu</a> is organized much more
cleanly:
</p>
<div class="figure">
<p><img src="./images/menu-groups.png" alt="menu-groups.png" />
</p>
</div>
<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>
</div>
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<h2 id="orge57abf6">The <code>.yas-setup.el</code> file</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orge57abf6">
<p>
If there is file named <code>.yas-setup.el</code> in a mode's snippet
subdirectory, it is loaded along with the snippets. Utility
functions used by the snippets can be put here.
</p>
</div>
</div>
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<h2 id="org40a5619">The <code>.yas-compiled-snippet.el</code> file</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org40a5619">
<p>
You may compile a top-level snippet directory with the
<code>yas-compile-directory</code> function, which will create a
<code>.yas-compiled-snippets.el</code> file under each mode subdirectory,
which contains definitions for all snippets in the subdirectory.
Compilation helps improve loading time.
</p>
<p>
Alternatively, you may compile all directories in the list
<code>yas-snippet-dirs</code> with the <code>yas-recompile-all</code> function.
</p>
</div>
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<h2 id="org2f7147a">The <code>.yas-skip</code> file</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org2f7147a">
<p>
A <code>.yas-skip</code> file in a mode's snippet subdirectory tells YASnippet
not to load snippets from there.
</p>
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