Documentation: description of finding snippet scope does not work

[FrancisVila]

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Description

I'd like to build my own snippets file for different environments (javascript, css, etc)

On page https://flight-manual.atom.io/using-atom/sections/snippets/

For example, if we wanted to add a snippet that would work for Java files, we would look up the language-java package in our Settings view and we can see the Scope is source.java. Then the top level snippet key would be that prepended by a period (like a CSS class selector would do). (the image shows a screenshot with Scope: source.java )

Steps to Reproduce

1. I go to Settings > Packages in Atom
2. type Language Java in Search
3. I see the package language-java , but nowhere Scope: source.java (see screenshot)
4. I see a button marked View on Atom.io. Click on the button, it takes you to [https://atom.io/packages/language-html]
5. no Scope: source.java in sight on that page either

[FrancisVila]

The most useful source of info I found was this: https://github.com/psmitt/metalanguage/blob/master/examples/ScopeList.ScopeList

[FrancisVila]

Added to this I opened a file in the delivery called language-package-name.cson . There's a comment in that file saying:

If you want some example snippets, check out: https://github.com/atom/language-javascript/blob/master/snippets/javascript.cson

Went to the address, got a 404 error

[savetheclocktower]

Below the part you screenshotted, do you not see a section in the language-java settings describing the Java grammar?

[savetheclocktower]

Also, you say language-package-name.cson was “in the delivery” — can you be more specific? I can’t find the file you’re talking about.

[FrancisVila]

So it is! I visually discarded the part below because I thought it belonged to the next package. It has rather a big space between the top part and the rest.