vim-snipmate not expanding non-source code file

Question

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?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '15 at 08:15

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*.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.

answered Jan 06 '15 at 08:15

romainl

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Thanks romainl, it works now. My problem was that I had made a txt.snippet file, not text.snippet. – Lynx-Lab Jan 06 '15 at 09:16
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Yes, it's `.snippets`, not `.snippets`. – romainl Jan 06 '15 at 09:29

vim-snipmate not expanding non-source code file

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