snipmate.vim

Author:	`Michael Sanders`_
Maintainer:	`Rok Garbas`_
Homepage:	http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540

After several unsuccessful attempts of contacting Michael Sanders, no
commits in last half year and long pull request line on github (none of
pull requests were commented/replied/rejected).

But nothing to worry about. We all get busy, accupied with our daily work
or just lose interest in doing boring maintainance.

While reviewing pull requests on github.com/msanders I found lots of great
improvements and I decided to **friendly** fork it review and apply patches
that were send, notify all the patch submiters and do the maintainance of
snipmate.vim from now on. Ofcourse if somebody want to help, please don't
hesitate to write me. The only thing in what I'm not interested is leaving
things like they are now.

Maybe I'll only maintain it for a while until Michael Sanders takes things
back into his hand or until some other super-hero shows up.

Tnx and happy snipmating, Rok Garbas

How to install

• using vim-addon-manager: Add "snipMate" to the addon list.
• manually: See snipMate-addon-info.txt, you need tlib and vim-addon-mw-utils

comment about this (MarcWeber) branch

::

I also asked Michael Sanders - A long time ago I got a reply - but nothing which would have lead to a merge. Probably my branch can be dropped if Rak Garbas accepts my (major?) changes

My forks differs in the following way:

• snippets are loaded lazily.
• snippets are no longer cached. Thus you always get the snippets you just wrote to a file without reloading anything.
• when visually selecting a snippet in a .snippets file you can press <cr> to replace spaces by tabs automatically in a smart way

future

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I'd like to investigate whether xptemplate or snipmate has the better engine. So maybe my vision of the future could be making xptemplate read snippet files. It is not important enough to me to work on it right now, because snipmate works reasonable well for me.

Snippets should be distributed in additional repositories. Eg

• snipmate-snippets-ruby
• snipmate-snippets-vim
• snipmate-snippets-...

One repo containing snippets is: git://github.com/scrooloose/snipmate-snippets.git

comment without verifying it: < Silex> MarcWeber: btw, check out ultisnips. Much better than snipmate imho

And before this discussion xptemplate vs snipmate vs ultisnips .. continues we should create a wiki page comparing them and keep that up to date. If you volunteer tell me so that I can reference the link.

Think about merging: https://github.com/vim-scripts/superSnipMate (note: vim-scripts is only a "mirror all service". I asked the author o superSnipMate to create his own upstream on github.