Hello all,

I'd like to propose two additions to the C bundle.

First, an easy snippet: typedef.

I know I can never remember how typedef works, so I propose this snippet:

typedef ${1:WhatItIs} ${2:NowCallIt}

Second, a modification on an old favorite: the class snippet.

Most of the classes I write are subclasses of something else. Except the class snippet echos my colon and subclass declaration.

Meaning, I end up with class declarations like:

class Customer : public Person { public: Customer : public Person (arguments); virtual ~Customer : public Person ();

private: /* data */ };

(Note the ": public Person" echoed on both the constructor line, and the deconstructor like).

I suggest modifying the class snippet like so:

class ${1:name}${2: : public } $3 { public: ${1:name} (${4:arguments}); virtual ~${1:name} ();

private: ${0:/* data */} };

There are a few things I don't like about this, mainly that if you don't inherit from something you know have to type "'class', tab, delete, tab, arguments. It also might handle multiple inheritance poorly, or protected/private inheritance. Maybe some TextMate snippet wizards (or people with more involved C++ classes than I) can revisit my snippet to make it work better with these cases.

Hope this helps, _Ryan Wilcox