[YASnippet]

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 syntax, you can even import most TextMate templates to YASnippet. Watch or download a higher resolution version ()

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.

1. Download yasnippet-bundle on the right sidebar and unpack it.
2. You'll get a file named yasnippet-bundle.el, put it in ~/.emacs.d/plugins/ (create that directory if not exists).
3. 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)

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")

Please refer to the comprehensive documentation for full customization and support. If you find a bug, please report it at . If you run into problems using YASnippet, or have snippets to contribute, post to the . Thank you very much for using YASnippet!