[SVN] Programmatically add snippets?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 15/6/2006, at 14:49, Stephen Skubik-Peplaski wrote:

> Is there a way to add snippets programmatically? [...]

The easiest is to generate the snippet files in the bundle’s Snippets  
folder and then ask TM to reload bundles (be sure to ‘touch’ the  
Snippets folder itself, or ask TM to flush cache when reloading by  
holding down option while selecting to reload.)

The snippet file itself is a property list file and can thus be  
binary, XML, or the old-style ASCII format.

If your (scripting) language of choice has no support for writing  
property lists [1], it’s probably easiest to generate the old-style  
ASCII output [2], here’s a snippet shown in that format:

    {   name = "NSAutoreleasePool";
        content = "NSAutoreleasePool* pool = [NSAutoreleasePool new]; 
\n$0\n[pool release];";
        scope = "source.objc, source.objc++";
        tabTrigger = "pool";
        uuid = "D402B10A-149B-414D-9961-110880389A8E";
    }

I think the fields should be self-explanatory. Use uuidgen [2] to get  
a unique identifier per snippet.

To speedup initial loading of the snippets, you can use plutil [4] to  
convert them to the binary format -- but if you’re using cutting edge  
build, TM will cache the snippets after initial load.


[1] TextMate itself ships with a plist extension to ruby that allows  
writing out a hash as a property list.
[2] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ 
PropertyLists/Concepts/OldStylePListsConcept.html
[3] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ 
ManPages/man1/uuidgen.1.html
[4] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ 
ManPages/man1/plutil.1.html