YASnippet - Text markup language

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YASnippet is an open source text markup language created in 2008 by Zhang Chiyuan.

#287on PLDB

16Years Old

403Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet

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A template system for Emacs

Tags: text markup language
YASnippet is developed on GitHub and has 2,767 stars
There are at least 403 YASnippet repos on GitHub
YASnippet is written in Lisp, Markdown, CSS, YAML, Make
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 261 users using YASnippet in 264 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for YASnippet

Example from the web:

# -*- mode: snippet -*-
# name: fun
# key: fun
# expand-env: ((yas-indent-line 'fixed))
# --
${1:function-name} :: ${2:type}
$1 ${3:arguments} $0

Example from Linguist:

# name: Read stdin
# key: stdin
# group: es6
# --
new Promise(resolve => {
	let input = "";
	process.stdin.setEncoding("UTF8");
	process.stdin.on("readable", () => {
		const chunk = process.stdin.read();
		null !== chunk ? input += chunk : resolve(input);
	})
}).then(data => {
	$1
});

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X