snipmate.vim

snipMate.vim aims to be a concise vim script that implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim.

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What it is

snipMate.vim aims to be a concise vim script that implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim.

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Observed mentions: 2011-08-22 14:07:03 UTC to 2011-11-27 02:18:50 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Aug 22	2011-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Aug 29	2011-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 5	2011-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 12	2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 19	2011-09-19 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 26	2011-09-26 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 3	2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-10 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 10	2011-10-10 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 17	2011-10-17 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 24	2011-10-24 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 31	2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 7	2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 14	2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 21	2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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bostonvaulter2·Nov 27, 2011

Git Pop looks like it can help you see garbas' repo. It trimmed the list of repos from 335 to 7. http://gitpop.heroku.com/?url=https://github.com/msanders/sn... Although I agree that something like this should be built into Github.

In GitHub forking has one big flaw

zbowling·Nov 26, 2011

Thanks! Very kind words. The one case I didn't link but talked about was my co-worker Michael's snipmate.vim project. https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim He stopped working on it because he felt it was dead end to keep supporting it since vim plugins are so hacky, but the community loves his plugin. It's has a massive number of forks and patches but he hasn't touched it since 2009. This fork has taken up most of the new development on the project and really has pushed it hard to almost a 1.0 now: https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate

In GitHub forking has one big flaw

seri·Aug 22, 2011

I use FuzzyFinder (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984) instead of Command-T, and I would also add: Endwise: https://github.com/tpope/vim-endwise, Matchit: https://github.com/tsaleh/vim-matchit, NerdTree: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree, Surround: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround, Snipmate: https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim (compulsory)

In List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials