SnipMate

SnipMate aims to provide support for textual snippets, similar to TextMate or other Vim plugins like UltiSnips. For example, in C, typing for<tab> could be expanded to

for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
    /* code */
}

with successive presses of tab jumping around the snippet.

Originally authored by Michael Sanders, SnipMate was forked in 2011 after a stagnation in development. This fork is currently maintained by Rok Garbas, Marc Weber, and Adnan Zafar.

Installing SnipMate

We recommend one of the following methods for installing SnipMate and its dependencies. SnipMate depends on vim-addon-mw-utils and tlib. Since SnipMate does not ship with any snippets, we suggest looking at the vim-snippets repository.

Using VAM, add vim-snippets to the list of packages to be installed.

Using Pathogen, run the following commands:

  % cd ~/.vim/bundle
  % git clone https://github.com/tomtom/tlib_vim.git
  % git clone https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-mw-utils.git
  % git clone https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate.git

  # Optional:
  % git clone https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets.git

Using Vundle, add the following to your vimrc then run :BundleInstall

  Bundle "MarcWeber/vim-addon-mw-utils"
  Bundle "tomtom/tlib_vim"
  Bundle "garbas/vim-snipmate"

  " Optional:
  Bundle "honza/vim-snippets"

FAQ

How does SnipMate determine which snippets to load? How can I separate, for example, my Rails snippets from my Ruby snippets?

Primarily SnipMate looks at the 'filetype' and 'syntax' settings. Taking "scopes" from these options, it looks in each snippets/ directory in 'runtimepath' for files named scope.snippets, scope/*.snippets, or scope_*.snippets.

However we understand this may not allow for the flexibility desired by some languages. For this we provide two options: scope aliases and the :SnipMateLoadScope command. Scope aliases simply say "whenever this scope is loaded, also load this other scope:

let g:snipMate = {}
let g:snipMate.scope_aliases = {}
let g:snipMate.scope_aliases['ruby'] = 'ruby,rails'

will load the ruby-rails scope whenever the ruby scope is active. The :SnipMateLoadScope foo command will always load the foo scope in the current buffer. The vim-rails plugin automatically does :SnipMateLoadScope rails when editing a Rails project for example.

Release Notes

Master

Implement simple caching
Remove expansion guards
Fix bug with mirrors in the first column
Fix bug with tabs in indents (#143)
Fix bug with mirrors in placeholders
Fix reading single snippet files
Fix the use of the visual map at the end of a line
Add :SnipMateLoadScope command and buffer-local scope aliases
Load <scope>_*.snippets files

0.87 - 2014-01-04

Stop indenting empty lines when expanding snippets
Support extends keyword in .snippets files
Fix visual placeholder support
Add zero tabstop support
Support negative 'softtabstop'
Add g:snipMate_no_default_aliases option
Add snipMateTrigger for triggering an expansion inside a snippet
Add snipMate#CanBeTriggered() function

Jandersolutions/vim-snipmate

SnipMate

Installing SnipMate

FAQ

Release Notes

Master

0.87 - 2014-01-04