Automatically Download TextMate Snippets

[Jeff Wheeler]

It seems to me that yasnippet was written with TextMate bundles, so I
went ahead and wrote a quick Python script to download snippets from
any TextMate bundle and save them as yasnippets in a given path.

The source is available here:
http://code.nokrev.com/?p=snippet-copier.git;a=blob_plain;f=snippet_copier.py;hb=59de

There's not really any documentation at the moment, but an example
usage should suffice for the moment:

$ mkdir html-mode
$ ./snippet_copier.py --bundle HTML --path html-mode

This will download the snippets from here <http://macromates.com/svn/
Bundles/trunk/Bundles/HTML.tmbundle/Snippets/> and put them in the
folder html-mode.

I created a separate folder outside of yasnippets in ~/.emacs.d/, and
then include both that and the original yasnippets snippets in my
init.el.

Jeff Wheeler

[Jeff Wheeler]

Also note that some snippets don't work quite right, especially those
which include specific TM functionality (e.g. TM's selection variable).

[Chiyuan Zhang]

Hi! Thanks for sharing this. I've added a link to your script on
the wiki page:
http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/wiki/UserContributedSnippets

2008/3/23, Jeff Wheeler <jeffw...@gmail.com>:

[Jeff Wheeler]

Sweet, thanks!

I just realized that a better direct link to the script would be this,
which will update with new versions:
http://code.nokrev.com/?p=snippet-copier.git;a=blob_plain;f=snippet_copier.py

(By the way, it should be "wrote" in the first sentence of the second
paragraph.)

Anyways, thanks a bunch...

Jeff Wheeler

On Mar 22, 7:39 pm, "Chiyuan Zhang" <plus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! Thanks for sharing this. I've added a link to your script on
> the wiki page:http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/wiki/UserContributedSnippets
>

> 2008/3/23, Jeff Wheeler <jeffwhee...@gmail.com>:

>
>
>
> > It seems to me that yasnippet was written with TextMate bundles, so I
> > went ahead and wrote a quick Python script to download snippets from
> > any TextMate bundle and save them as yasnippets in a given path.
>
> > The source is available here:

> > http://code.nokrev.com/?p=snippet-copier.git;a=blob_plain;f=snippet_c...

[Chiyuan Zhang]

Updated. :)

2008/3/23, Jeff Wheeler <jeffw...@gmail.com>:

[gabiruh]

On Mar 22, 6:36 pm, Jeff Wheeler <jeffwhee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also note that some snippets don't work quite right, especially those
> which include specific TM functionality (e.g. TM's selection variable).

And snippet's names containing spaces like: "Python Django Template"
has to be passed as "Python%20Django%20Template" in command line, I
think you should encode spaces on uri.



Thanks for this script.

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Gabriel Andrade

[Jeff Wheeler]

Nice catch; I just fixed it. Remember to use quotation marks around the
entire bundle name, though (otherwise optparse won't recognize it as an
option belonging to --bundle).

Jeff Wheeler

[travis]

Is it just of does the latest version output wacky results. I did
the .//snippet_copier.py --bundle "HTML" --path html-mode and I got
snippets like control, and left, and things like that and the only one
that worked for me was the mailto snippet. Is this the same things for
anyone else?