Re: Do most Vim users use snippets?

On 2014-01-11 20:29, Ivan wrote:
> I'm thinking about trying out snipMate, or something similar, and
> I'm curious whether people find them a huge help,
>
> Just fishing for opinions! :)

I've found that it depends entirely on what I'm writing. Certain
programming languages lend themselves well to templated text while
others don't. I work mostly in Python, and there's not a lot of fat
to trim from the language, so I don't find it terribly useful. When
I code in C-likes (C/C++/Java/PHP), it's sometimes nice to have vim
autocomplete things like if/for/while statements, adding in all the
extra parens/braces. When coding in HTML/XML, I lean more towards an
autocompletion of tags where I know opening tags will have closing
tags.

That all said, unless I plan to be in one of those non-python
languages for a long-term project, I fly with a pretty minimal
version of Vim, with no plugins. If I do have one of those longer
jobs (thankfully fewer and fewer now, allowing me to focus on
Python), I might install a snippet/autocomplete plugin temporarily
for the particular language, but I don't think I'd keep it long term.

-tim



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