Yasnippet expansion is broken

[UndeadKernel]

It seems that the yasnippet expansion is not working as intended.

If I understand correctly, snippet expansion only occurs when some text is selected. If I open an elisp file, for example init.el, type in "def", select that word and then press tab; then an unrelated snippet is expanded.

[hlissner]

No selection is necessary. You type def, press tab and the snippet expands.

Make sure you have snippets installed. They're not included in this config. I keep mine in a separate repo. Run make snippets in ~/.emacs.d to install them (or just clone them to ~/.emacs.d/private/snippets) -- if you use them, I suggest you fork them; mine are tied closely to my own workflows and will change often.

Assuming you have snippets installed, these are the two main ways to use snippet expansion (| will represent the cursor, as well as the editable points you can cycle through with Tab after expansion):

• defun| => Tab => (defun fn-name| (|) |)

• (message "Hi") => select the form => Tab => select defun =>

  (defun fn-name|()
    (message "Hi")|)

This gif illustrates these two workflows:

[UndeadKernel]

It must've been something messed up with my repository copy.
After loading the master branch from scratch and loading some snippets, it is back to working!
Quick question: which tools are you using for creating the animated gifs?

[hlissner]

Oh gosh, I'm so sorry i'm only noticing this message now! I'm actually still on the prowl for a good gif app. For the above, I used Quicktime Player (which has a screen recorder on Mac) and used this script to convert the resulting .mov file into a .gif.

You could use any screen recorder with that script, really. Haven't tried it with other video formats though.

Other alternatives:

• https://github.com/colinkeenan/silentcast (linux)
• http://www.cockos.com/licecap/ (win/osx)