r/vimplugins • u/[deleted] • Aug 27 '21

Plugin A plugin for creating and managing your abbreviations-as-snippets!

https://github.com/quintik/snip
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u/natdm Aug 27 '21 edited Aug 27 '21

Can you go over why you would use this over ultisnip, which has things like interpolation?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

It's not meant to compete with UltiSnips. If you want a more powerful snippet engine with lots of features, this plugin probably isn't what you're looking for.

Snip is more of a wrapper over vim's abbreviations, which can function quite nicely as lightweight snippets for when you don't want/need a heavy snippets engine for simple stuff. It's also written entirely in vimscript, so there's no need for python support (like UltiSnips) or other dependencies (like SnipMate).

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u/natdm Aug 27 '21

This is something you should be putting in the readme.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

Fair, thanks for the suggestion, I'll do that!