Investigate smart snippets

[rob]

Found a pointer to some emacs lisp to  expand snippets of code that's loosely based on textmate.

[rob]

KDevelop uses simple snippets that prompt the user to replace text that is between $ delimiters. I.e. $VAR$ will produce a prompt that asks what to replace $VAR$ with.

It seems the TextMate? way is more like: insert the snippet into the code with the caret placed in the first variable, then tab to the remaining fields.

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From duplicate ticket #588: ran across a  Trac link] that included some TextMate? snippets. They are in XML, but I wonder if there is documentation enough where I could use that as a format for snippet support and thereby leverage all the TextMate? stuff that's out there?

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The  E Text Editor has been  open sourced and it has code to deal with TextMate? snippets.

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Other resources:

 http://manual.macromates.com/en/snippets  http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/  http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/  http://code.google.com/p/tmbundles4win/  http://www.sublimetext.com/features  http://code.nokrev.com/?p=snippet-copier.git;a=blob_plain;f=snippet_copier.py  http://v1.garrettdimon.com/archives/trick-your-textmate-snippets

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Another resource on yasnippets (similar to textmate snippets):  http://yasnippet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/define_snippet.html