[TextMate] questions about snippets

[Allan Odgaard]

On 20. Oct 2004, at 19:02, kumar mcmillan wrote:

> 1) are snippets stored anywhere on the system?  Looked in the Library 
> but couldn't find anything.  Was wondering if they are in XML files 
> somewhere to be backed up or shared/

Yes, they are in:
  ~/Library/Application 
Support/TextMate/Bundles/Custom.tmbundle/Snippets/

> 2) is there a way to use TM variables in snippets?  specifically, I 
> was hoping to insert $TM_DATE in the snippet somwhere.

The TM_DATE is not among the default variables.

But in a snippet you can execute normal shell commands by embedding 
them in back-ticks (if you're running one of the betas).

So e.g. do: »(c) `date +%Y` Your name« to get the year.


Kind regards Allan