Yasnippet

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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.

yasnippet
Description template system for Emacs
Author João Távora
Maintainer João Távora
Source https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet

Basic setup

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet")
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/global-mode 1)

Helpful keybindings

[Tab]
Expand snippet.

Common Customization

Use Yasnippet with Hippie Expand

If you use Hippie Expand, you can add Yasnippet to the list of expansion functions. For example if you want to try expanding snippets first:

(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list (cons 'yas/hippie-try-expand hippie-expand-try-functions-list))

You could do this globally, or for a specific mode using a mode hook.

Note: If you use [Tab] for Hippie Expand, consider using a prefix for your snippets. Otherwise you may be trying to tab between possible expansions and find yourself tabbing through fields in an expanded snippet instead.

See Also

Project Pages

Tutorial Pages