Atom doesn't use snippets in the snippets folder ~/.atom/snippets

[Enkouyami]

I moved working snippets from the ~/.atom/snippets.cson file to new individual cson files in the snippets folder in ~/.atom/snippets (which I had to create) and they stopped working.

Atom Version: 0.187.0

[mnquintana]

Is this a feature request? I'm pretty sure that Atom only supports a snippets.cson file and not a snippets folder right now.

[izuzak]

@Enkouyami Can you explain your motivation -- why would you like to move the snippets.cson file to a different location? Atom expects the snippets.cson file to be where it is now, it can't really know where the file is if you move it around like that.

[Enkouyami]

Based on this latest doc for using snippets and this v0.187 doc for snippets,

There is also a directory called ~/.atom/snippets that you can fill with multiple json or cson files in the snippets format if you want to organize your snippets in a more coherent way.

[thomasjo]

I think the documentation is wrong. The snippets folder concept only applies to packages as far as I know. Had a very quick glance over the relevant code and it seems to confirm my suspicion. Although I might be wrong.

/cc @schacon

[izuzak]

Thanks for the 👀, @thomasjo! I was looking at the code myself yesterday and forgot to add a comment 😬 -- I didn't see anything in there about a snippets/ folder either. I'm going to close this and open an issue on the docs repository: atom/flight-manual.atom.io#30

@Enkouyami sorry for the confusion here and thanks for pointing this out. 👍

[danielbayley]

I just published modular-snippets. See also atom/snippets#124.
apm install modular-snippets

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