Yasnippet Alternatives

yasnippet reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2026

  Hopefully not too offtopic: why so much boilerplate?

  I see most would-be-boilerplate code refactored so the redundant bit becomes a small utility or library. But most of what I write is for research/analysis pipelines, so I'm likely missing an important insight. Like more verbose configuration over terse convention?

  For code structure, snippets tempting[1] ("iff[tab]" => "if(...){...}") handles the bare conditional/loop completes in a more predictable way and offline/without a LLM eating into RAM.

  [1] https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet; https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips; https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userdefinedsnippe...

• Nix Flake Templates
  9 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2025

  On the other hand, I also tried simpler solutions such as gists or snippets (1, 2) which I can use as starting points for my projects despite being not convenient for re-use and pretty much unmaintainable due to lack of clear structure.

• Emacs 2024 Changes
  11 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2025

  For my templating needs, I moved to tempel (from yasnippet). I have found it to be way more powerful and grok-able.

• I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024

  There's YASnippet, which could be used in much the same way as the tools that were described.

  https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet

• org-mode date for a file -- the correct way
  1 project | /r/emacs | 22 Dec 2022

  Although the Org manual says that YASnippet doesn’t play well, I personally haven’t had any issues. Maybe I’ve just been lucky? But I do have a snippet that uses the format command to create an Org inactive timestamp. Just a thought.

• How do I change the autocomplete results I see?
  1 project | /r/emacs | 17 Dec 2022

  For the first question, I would look into a template system like Yasnippet or tempo. I think that’s the best approach for it, and I’m not sure if you can do it with completion methods like corfu

• Key bindings to insert snippets/characters (Emacs+ESS)
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 20 Oct 2022

  I second yasnippet, it is extremely handy for all sorts of boilerplate (like LaTeX preambles, environments). There are many contributed snippets in the yasnippet-snippets repo that you can look at as examples.

• Need help improving my workflow
  1 project | /r/emacs | 24 Aug 2022

  Hmmm... Maybe yasnippet?

• How do you change bracing style for C in yasnippets
  1 project | /r/emacs | 13 Jul 2022

  (defun whatacold/yasnippet-exit-hook () "My yasnippet exit hook." (when (or (eq major-mode 'c-mode) (eq major-mode 'c++-mode)) (whatacold/yasnippet-exit-hook-c))) ;; see https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/issues/728 ;; (after! c-or-c++-mode) ;;

• How do I get yasnippet to actually load the stored snippets for org-mode?
  1 project | /r/emacs | 21 Mar 2022
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