With snipMate, how do I add specific snippets for mySpecial.html file only?

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In my vim environment, I want to add a few specific snippets that should only be active when I am editing mySpecial.html file.

Since this file is an html file I want it to have the html filetype. But on the other hand, if I edit any other html file, I don't want the specific snippets to be active. So, it seems I cannot use the standard filetype mechanism for this.

Is there any solution to my problem?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 12:58

For the original (Michael Sanders) snipMate, I've defined the following command:

:command! -bar -nargs=1 -complete=filetype AddSnippets silent call ExtractSnipsFile(g:snippets_dir . <q-args> . '.snippets', &l:filetype)

With that, you can interactively or through an autocmd add the snippets:

:autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile mySpecial.html AddSnippets mySpecial

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 11:08

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This sounds like an interesting feature request.

In the mean time, you can try this simpler variant of Carlo's solution:

Put your custom snippets in ~/.vim/snippets/foo.snippets.

Add the following line to your ~/.vimrc:

augroup mySpecialHTML
    autocmd!
    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile mySpecial.html set filetype=html.foo
augroup END

answered Mar 15 '14 at 11:08

romainl

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Ah, there is always something new to learn about vim, I did not know about augroup feature :) – Carlo Mar 15 '14 at 12:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 09:47

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I think you can define a new filetype just for your mySpecial.html

au BufRead,BufNewFile mySpcial.html set filetype=myHtml

And in that filetype you can reuse the html highlights group, plus your custom snippets.
Does this sound reasonable?

answered Mar 15 '14 at 09:47

Carlo

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It sounds reasonable *if* reuse doesn't imply copy/paste. – René Nyffenegger Mar 15 '14 at 10:16

With snipMate, how do I add specific snippets for mySpecial.html file only?

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