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vim-snipmate not expanding non-source code file

I am using snipmate for coding and it works fine.

However I would also like to use it on txt file extension, but this does not work at all.

Is it designed to work like that? How can I get snippet expansion on ad-hoc file types?

Solution

  • *.txt files have the text filetype but you probably don't have snippets for that filetype. You can create them in ~/.vim/snippets/text.snippets and do the same for every filetype for which you don't have snippets.

    Note that the snippets in ~/.vim/snippets/_.snippets are "global" and thus available in any filetype.

    If you want to expand JavaScript snippets in an HTML file, you can "combine" filetypes with :set ft=html.javascript.