Supercharge your Emacs / Spacemacs / Doom with Yasnippets!

There are some packages that forever changed my emacs (nay, coding) workflow forever. Magit was a big one and now yasnippets joins the ranks too. If you use emacs, spacemacs, or doom emacs you owe it to yourself to learn how to use snippets and how to make your own and I show exactly that in this video.

[@undisclosedmusic4969]

I don’t even use emacs. Your voice just calms me

[@JackofSome]

Try emacs. It'll calm you more!

[@estebanmarin002]

@@JackofSome I agree,

[@ade5324]

@@JackofSome Thats sounds like a threat :L

[@rafaelcorella1895]

Can't believe how well explained this is, thank you so much!

[@raccoonteachesyou]

Wow, I'm glad that you are doing more videos lately ! I can't wait to see if you have more Python related subjects that are not treated by others ! Anyway, do what you love, this is great !

[@danv8718]

Absolutely fantastic! Thanks a lot for this great intro.

[@nezubn]

Really need more videos of emacs from you

[@mystisification]

Genius use of snippets, thanks man!

[@MMABeijing]

thank you so very much, your explanation was fast and clear, what an amazing teacher you are

[@mchisolm0]

Thank you so much for sharing Yasnippets! I tried searching but could not find snippets for React Native/JavaScript/TypeScript. Do you have a specific place you go to to find useful snippets?

[@estebanmarin002]

Please do more videos like this!

[@kaelandchatman4780]

Wow! Thank you for creating this video!

[@abrarmasumabir3809]

Sir what theme are you using? Can I install this theme for vim!

[@subhajitmishra007]

Is it possible to make yassnippet listed in autocomplete pop up with Corfu? It would be easire to get the snippets listed, similar to luasnip in neovim.

[@Zakaros1000]

And that's exactly what I was looking for. I was following a CSS course where the guy started introducing the use of snippets for VS Code, and I was wondering if my lovely Doom Emacs have something alike. and here we are!

[@hackerzol]

I have this installed but I don't use it nearly enough. I need to go make some moar snippets!

[@akarshjain7141]

Hey Jack you could use snippets in snippet creation buffer as well. 🤪 Your videos are simply "learning python in the wonderland".

[@JackofSome]

*Thanos voice* "I used the snippets to create the snippets" (Thank you for the kind words)

[@devGurus]

hey jack. thanks for the video. how can we add a system directory to dropbox. tnx

[@WillyRempel]

I'm missing the 'class' snippet. I'm on develop branch, emacs 26.3. What's going on? Where do I get all the snippets?

[@JackofSome]

I'm starting to think I gave wrong information. The class snippet at least (and possibly others from python mode) are bundled only with elpy

[@WillyRempel]

@@JackofSome I found it in the elpy repo. For now I will manually copy his snippets folder to my private folder. I searched in spacemacs repo to find rationale re elpy vs not. One user thought that elpy is better than the current layer. I would like to know if this is true.

[@birmanets]

Great video! Sorry this is a bit off topic but what audio setup do you use for video's? Sounds great.

[@JackofSome]

I feel like all my videos ultimately end up having a different audio setup (still trying to find my sweet spot). This one was using the SM7B mic recorded with a Focusrite solo and with a FetHead amplifier in the chain.

[@birmanets]

@@JackofSome Thanks for the reply! Nice setup, that video sounds sweet. I find the audio of USB microphones is not as good as XLR mics.

[@KolobeTona]

Where's that init code for fundamental-mode, please?

[@varad3259]

By the way, that elisp function elpy-snippet-init-assignments when i try to expand the class snippet, it says "symbol's function definition is void: elpy-snippet-init-assignments". What do I do?

[@JackofSome]

Sorry i never mentioned it in the video but you need elpy installed for these

[@unperrier5998]

I'm looking if it exists for vim... yes it does! Thanks for the pointer it looks really awesome.

[@JackofSome]

Fantastic. I'm not familiar with how you extend vim, something something vimscript? I'd be curious to see how it supplants elisp in the vim version of yasnippets.

[@ananon5771]

@@JackofSome its probably a yasnippits *inspired* plugin or it relies on emacs/some elisp to do the heavy lifting vim-org does this for exporting to pdf and html,and the vim port of slime,and before you get confused on why,im equally as confused for so many reasons.

[@marcel948]

Finally it made click. Thank you!

Things like date you already could do it evaluating elisp values directly in your buffer.

[@JackofSome]

Certainly you can do (insert (format-time-string "%Y")) and eval region but the original code remains no? Is there a way to get ride of it?

Can you share your unit.el and the site where you show in the video?

[@alexisgomez6868]

For some reason when I create a new snippet the 'key' doesn't work, but I can insert it using yas-inser-snippet :(

[@jg7346]

Did you switch to Emacs Doom??

[@JackofSome]

Nay. Got frustrated with both so ended up building my own spacemacs from scratch. I'll do a video on it... some day

[@jg7346]

Jack of Some would be great if u could share your built on GH! Thx

[@JackofSome]

github.com/safijari/stupid-spacemacs This is a slightly older version. The current config contains a bunch of work related stuff so I've been keeping it private.

[@abrarmasumabir3809]

what font are you using?

[@JackofSome]

mononoki

[@chomik3873]

Cool video. Would be nice if you included links to your dotfiles. I bet there's a lot of inspiration in there

[@JackofSome]

GitHub.com/safijari/stupid-spacemacs

[@chomik3873]

@@JackofSome Thanks!

[@JackofSome]

You'll come to see it now as horrifying than inspiring 😅

[@chomik3873]

@@JackofSome Well, beginner's knowledge of lisp doesn't help much :') Did you find any interesting resources while creating this config or was it mostly browsing documentation and googling specifics stuff?

[@aniketpatil6111]

What is the font Name you arey using ?

[@JackofSome]

madmalik.github.io/mononoki/

[@adithyakumar6564]

Hey Jack, you just made my life 10 times easier. Let me buy you a cup of coffee :-)

[@JackofSome]

Sure thing. Glad this was helpful. You can donate here www.buymeacoffee.com/Ej8qUm5 or you can donate to a Humanitarian Organization like the Red Cross or Humanity First.

[@adithyakumar6564]

@@JackofSome How about both? Also, you should put that link on your video description.

[@adithyakumar6564]

@@JackofSome Probably not best to bother you like this but "The requested action could not be performed, semantically incorrect, or failed business validation.". You might need to do some validation I believe.

[@moonightmars3510]

want to know the fonts

[@JackofSome]

mononoki

[@ThinkAct2win]

I enabled yas-snippet-mode, but still get the message of no snippets to be inserted here!

[@JackofSome]

Can you give more details? What mode are you in? Do you get any results if you use the "visit snippets" commands?

[@ThinkAct2win]

@@JackofSome in python-mode. And when i run yas-visit-snippet-file i get "No snippets tables active!"

[@JackofSome]

Do you know if a python extension is installed (common ones are anaconda-mode or elpy, I use elpy)?

[@ThinkAct2win]

@@JackofSome No i did not. Now I can see the snippets and insert them. However, autocompletion did not work until I redefined the Yasnippets expansion key! Thanks a lot;)