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Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim

50 points by pkrumins 17y ago

aditya 17y ago
Wow. The entire series is worth reading. surround and matchit are awesome as well. The only other plugins I'm using are rails.vim, and git-vim. Tried fuzzyfinder but couldn't get it to work. What are your favorite plugins?
- mileszs 17y ago
  I probably use the plugin 'tComment' more than any other plugin. It toggles code comments, based on filetype. I often try to toggle comments by hitting 'gc' on machines that don't have that ability. Very simple, but has quickly become indispensable. I keep a list of links to things related to Vim, and the list of plugins I use is at the very bottom, if you're interested: http://mileszs.github.com/ http://mileszs.github.com/
  - aditya 17y ago
    heh - I've been using visual mode + :s/^/#/ for commenting blocks :) 'gc' is definitely much faster. thanks!
  - mun2mun 17y ago
    I use NERD_Commenter for code comment.But tComment also looks good.
oliveoil 17y ago
Because all text editors were created equal, it should be mentioned that a similar plugin exists for emacs: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
jcw 17y ago
If you use snipmate, I'd recommend also installing superTab: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643 Now when you hit <tab>, vim will know whether to add a snipmate snippet or use autocompletion. Works great.
jamesbritt 17y ago
"Without snippets you’d have to type this out every time" Well, no. You'd write your own function to insert that text and map it to some key sequence. Now, snipmate may make the addition and maintenance of such helper functions much nicer, but if people are really typing the same stuff over and over they're missing out on a key value of a programmable editor, not just lacking a plugin.
321abc 17y ago
The snippet plugin with the most features at present seems to be xptemplate: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611 There's a pretty interesting screencast about it here: http://vimeo.com/4449258 http://vimeo.com/4449258

50 points by pkrumins 17y ago

Wow. The entire series is worth reading. surround and matchit are awesome as well. The only other plugins I'm using are rails.vim, and git-vim. Tried fuzzyfinder but couldn't get it to work. What are your favorite plugins?

mileszs 17y ago
I probably use the plugin 'tComment' more than any other plugin. It toggles code comments, based on filetype. I often try to toggle comments by hitting 'gc' on machines that don't have that ability. Very simple, but has quickly become indispensable. I keep a list of links to things related to Vim, and the list of plugins I use is at the very bottom, if you're interested: http://mileszs.github.com/ http://mileszs.github.com/
- aditya 17y ago
  heh - I've been using visual mode + :s/^/#/ for commenting blocks :) 'gc' is definitely much faster. thanks!
- mun2mun 17y ago
  I use NERD_Commenter for code comment.But tComment also looks good.

oliveoil 17y ago

Because all text editors were created equal, it should be mentioned that a similar plugin exists for emacs: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/

jcw 17y ago

If you use snipmate, I'd recommend also installing superTab: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643 Now when you hit <tab>, vim will know whether to add a snipmate snippet or use autocompletion. Works great.

jamesbritt 17y ago

"Without snippets you’d have to type this out every time" Well, no. You'd write your own function to insert that text and map it to some key sequence. Now, snipmate may make the addition and maintenance of such helper functions much nicer, but if people are really typing the same stuff over and over they're missing out on a key value of a programmable editor, not just lacking a plugin.

321abc 17y ago

The snippet plugin with the most features at present seems to be xptemplate: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611 There's a pretty interesting screencast about it here: http://vimeo.com/4449258 http://vimeo.com/4449258