UltiSnips is a mature template library for Vim. Thus you can write code snippets once then refer to them by short words and make Vim expand them.
This is a fork of parent UltiSnips_ providing some additional features eg
known from SnipMate
See notes at "WHY forking" below.
doc/UltiSnips.txt slightly adopted original documentation
doc/UltiSnips-Quickstart.txt rewritten documentation focusing on the most important aspects to get started quickly
plugin/UltiSnips.vim: code comments, should always be up to date
github.com/honza/snipmate-snippets -> UltiSnips directory (merge is in progress) See installation
See doc/UltiSnips-Quickstart.txt
See doc/UltiSnips-Quickstart.txt
UPDATE: SirVer has made a lot of changes. Thus I must reevaluate whether its worth keeping this fork
This work is based on the original repository parent UltiSnips_.
What about feeding upstream? The author knows about the fork. Its me not having time to update the test suite - maybe I will never have. My goal is to provide value to me and the community using the time I have and merge UltiSnips and snipmate communities to maximize value for all parties.
A snippet engine always has two aspects: a) the engine b) the snippets
I know about XpTemplate, but it would have been too different. What about fixing snipmate? Would have been too much work.
Also see some notes in snipmate-merge-todo.
Also see discussion about merge_
UltiSnips: See WHY forking above.
snipmate: (was abondoned by original author, Marc Weber and Rock Garbas kept maintaining it for a while) Current upstream is at github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
XpTemplate: full blown VimL only engine - but too different to convert snipmate snippets to that format. It has some nice features, eg it can abstract over different coding styles (spaces)
neosnippets: https://github.com/Shougo/neosnippet/ I never used it. Its sead to be ablte to read snipmate snippets, too.
There are some more snippet engines - but from my point of view they are not worth menthioning because they have significant less features (if you think differently let me know)
[1] http://launchpad.net/ultisnips
The blog posts of the screencasts contain more advanced examples of the things discussed in the video.
Episode 1: What are snippets and do I need them?__Episode 2: Creating Basic Snippets__Episode 3: What's new in version 2.0__Episode 4: Python Interpolation__http://www.sirver.net/blog/2011/12/30/first-episode-of-ultisnips-screencast/ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2012/01/08/second-episode-of-ultisnips-screencast/ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2012/02/05/third-episode-of-ultisnips-screencast/ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2012/03/31/fourth-episode-of-ultisnips-screencast/
.. _parent UltiSnips: http://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips .. _discussion about merge: https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate/issues/114