yasnippet 0.7.0跟auto-complete-mode一起使用
I will only talk about how to set up yasnippet 0.7.0 or higher version.
Table of Contents
- 1 If you follow `normal install` way, setup is simple
- 2 If you use elpa package system, setup is even simpler
- 3 The real world setup is NOT simple
- 3.1 Two snippets may share the same key, so I need activate `yas/dropdown-prompt'
- 3.2 `yas/dropdown-prompt' is not perfect
- 3.3 Yasnippets conflicts with other plugins
- 4 My final yasnippet setup
1 If you follow `normal install` way, setup is simple
See its official documentation.
Install the yasnippet into somewhere and add following code into your .emacs:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-x.y.z") (require 'yasnippet) ;; not yasnippet-bundle (yas/initialize) (yas/load-directory "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet-x.y.z/snippets")
2 If you use elpa package system, setup is even simpler
After installation, you only need two lines in .emacs.
(require 'yasnippet) (yas/initialize)
Yasnippet 0.7.0 have already defined two locations for the snippets, "~/.emacs.d/yasnippet-install-path/yasnippet-x.y.z/snippets" and "~/.emacs.d/snippets". Yasnippet will load snippets in BOTH directories at startup.
So you only put your own snippets in "~/.emacs.d/snippets" and done. No need to tweak .emacs at all. To verify my claim, you can `C-h v yas/snippet-dirs' to check value of "yas/snippet-dirs". Please note "yas/root-directory" is the alias of "yas/snippet-dirs".
3 The real world setup is NOT simple
I will explain the reasons at first and give my complete yasnippet configuration code at the end of the this post.
3.1 Two snippets may share the same key, so I need activate `yas/dropdown-prompt'
One issue is I need a user-friendly dropdown window popped up when the key I input has several candidates. For example, when I type "inc" in C code. There are two candicates `#include "…"' and `#include <…>' available. A handy dropdown popup will help me to choose one of them as efficient as possible.
The good news is such fancy popup is a standard component of yasnippet. It's called `yas/dropdown-prompt'. Yasnippet's default algorithm will activate it at highest prority.
The bad news is for some wierd reason yasnippet won't load that dropdown-list by default. So you need manually load that component by one line of elisp code `(require 'dropdown-list)'.
3.2 `yas/dropdown-prompt' is not perfect
I cannot scroll down the dropdown window when there are more candidates it can display. That's especially annoying when calling `yas/insert-snippet'. In this case, we need use `yas/completing-prompt' instead. I will show the fix at the end of this article.
3.3 Yasnippets conflicts with other plugins
I use Auto Complete Mode (version 20120327 in elpa). There are two issuses when using it with yasnippets.
First, it use TAB key to do the auto-complete thing while yasnippet also uses TAB key. So I need re-configure hotkeys of yasnippets.
Second, yansippet changed its API `yas/get-snippet-tables' since version 0.7.0. This make the auto-complete cannot use yasnippet at all. This issue is reported and fixed by tkf. Actually all you need do is simple:
cd auto-complete-install-dir
rm auto-complete-config.elc
curl -L https://raw.github.com/tkf/auto-complete/337caa2ccc254a79f615bb2417f0d2fb9552b547/auto-complete-config.el > auto-complete-config.el
4 My final yasnippet setup
(require 'yasnippet) (yas/initialize) ;; default TAB key is occupied by auto-complete (global-set-key (kbd "C-c ; u") 'yas/expand) ;; default hotkey `C-c & C-s` is still valid (global-set-key (kbd "C-c ; s") 'yas/insert-snippet) ;; give yas/dropdown-prompt in yas/prompt-functions a chance (require 'dropdown-list) ;; use yas/completing-prompt when ONLY when `M-x yas/insert-snippet' ;; thanks to capitaomorte for providing the trick. (defadvice yas/insert-snippet (around use-completing-prompt activate) "Use `yas/completing-prompt' for `yas/prompt-functions' but only here..." (let ((yas/prompt-functions '(yas/completing-prompt))) ad-do-it))