IMPORTANT: comment on: What about merging whith Ultisnip using its engine
This repository contains snippets files for various programming languages.
It is community-maintained and many people have contributed snippet files and other improvements already.
snippets/*: snippets using snipmate format
UltiSnips/*: snippets using UltiSnips format
There are different forks of snippet engines which allow the user to insert sippets by typing the name of a snippet hitting the expansion mapping.
garbas/vim-snipmate [4]:
VimL, snipmate-snippets, engine sometimes behaves strange, supports
rewriting snippets on the fly (eg adding a second version with folding
markers)
MarcWeber/UltiSnips [6]:
python, snipmate-snippets and UltiSnips-snippets
SirVer/ultisnips [7]:
python, UltiSnips-snippets
github.com/Shougo/neosnippet [5]:
viml, has a compatible mode allowing to reuse most snipmate snippets ?
XPTemplate:
totally different syntax, does not read snippets contained in this file,
but it is also very powerful
... there are some more, but they have less features which is why I don't
mention them here
UltiSnips engine has additional features such as "nested snippets".
Which one to use? If you have python give MarcWeber/UltiSnips a try because its fast and supports all important features. You can prefer the UltiSnip versions of the snippets by setting the "always_use_first_snippet" option to 1.
If you have VimL only (vim without python support) your best option is using garbas/vim-snipmate and cope with the minor bugs found in the engine.
vim-snipmate was originally started by Michael Sanders who has now unfortunately abandoned the project. Rok Garbas is now maintaining a fork of the project in hopes of improving the existing code base.
No one can really be proficient in all programming languages. If you would like to maintain snippets for a language, please get in touch.
Until further work is done on vim-snipmate
, please don't add folding markers
into snippets. vim-snipmate
has some comments about how to patch all snippets
on the fly adding those.
Because MarcWeber/UltiSnips 6 supports also snipmate-snippets there is no need to duplicate all snippets - only those snippets who use advanced UltiSnips features should be duplicated in UltiSnips (?)
Currently all snippets from UltiSnips have been put into UltiSnips - some work on merging should be done (dropping duplicates etc)
For a list of authors, please see the AUTHORS
files.
Just as the original snipMate plugin, all the snippets are licensed under the terms of the MIT license.