Making the yasnippet *new-snippet* buffer more helpful, and comparing it to Jetbrains live templates

Yasnippet can be magical. Would love to see your usages in action. Here’s one I really enjoy using https://xenodium.com/smarter-snippets

Very nice snippet! I don't have too many advanced usages, most of them just look like: # -*- mode: snippet -*- # name: insert new interactive command function definition # key: interactive # -- (defun matt/$1 () (interactive) ($0)) But I do have one neat one which powers the [library](https://mjdiloreto.github.io/books_i_like/) on my personal blog, which creates a custom org-mode block that exports to the HTML for each book: # key: book # name: book entry # -- +begin_src book :title $1 :author ${2:$(apply #'concat (mapcar (lambda (w) (substring w 0 1)) (split-string yas-text)))} :cover-url ,* ${1:title} ,** ${2:author} $0 +end_src Whatever I type after $0 becomes the book's review when you click on it ;)

Nice one. Thanks for sharing!

Neat idea! Btw you can modify the `yas-new-snippet-default` variable to change what yasnippet inserts into a new snippet buffer. This itself is a snippet though, so don't forget to escape $ and `.