miniSnip VS emmet-vim

"I don't like plugins" you say? Well, then copypaste all of miniSnip into your vimrc, and boom! Now you have snippet functionality without any plugins!

For me, it had a drawback of requiring Python to work, which wasn't always available on Vim instances I use, thus I needed a Vim script solution. I currently maintain a fork of miniSnip.

I've just tried to do it in my miniSnip and it works. I think in UltiSnips it will look somewhat similar:

miniSnip is snippet plugin for Vim.

miniSnip by jorengarenar

AFAIK, every does. From miniSnip to UltiSnips

or [miniSnip](https://github.com/Jorengarenar/miniSnip, just saying...)

You may also be interensed in using some snippet plugin (e.g. miniSnip or UltiSnips)

My miniSnip is pure Vim script

Snippet plugin: miniSnip

If you're going to be doing a lot of HTML, I really love the emmet-vim plugin. In this case, it fills in a little more than you may have wanted ( tags get an automatic href="" attribute), but you can, for instance, put in (li>b)*2 (that is, two tags, each with a inside an

If you're talking about this plugin, you don't need to be in visual mode, just type your abbreviation and press ctrl-y, like this:

Does anyone have a link to their repository with emmet(https://github.com/mattn/emmet-vim) manually installed?

I installed emmet using packer.nvim. The plugin seemed to be installed correctly without any errors.

I tried emmet-vim, but it's only working in html files

It sounds like vim-emmet would be right up your alley. If you don't use a Vim package manager, install it by git cloneing it into a folder named ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/ on Unix/macOS or $HOME\vimfiles\pack\plugins\start on Windows (create it beforehand if it doesn't exist), then after you've :EmmetInstalled it into your buffer, you can use the , mapping after the ! to write the Emmet expansion for the HTML boilerplate; Emmet expansion is a very useful but quite complex feature and you can read more on it in [https://docs.emmet.io/](Emmet's documentation).