# joaotavora/yasnippet

A template system for Emacs

Repository: https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yasnippet
Homepage: http://joaotavora.github.io/yasnippet/
Language: Emacs Lisp
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-06-04T20:22:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 44/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 25, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5443, "days_push": 455, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2956, forks 316 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:32.183185+00:00)

## What it is
YASnippet is a template system for Emacs that expands abbreviations into code snippets with placeholder fields. It supports a TextMate-like snippet definition syntax and conditional, mode-specific expansion.

## Use cases
- expand code snippets in emacs
- create reusable text templates for programming
- convert textmate snippets to emacs
- speed up boilerplate typing in emacs
- define mode-specific snippet expansions

## When to choose
- you use Emacs and want fast insertion of repeated code or text patterns
- you need customizable, conditional snippet expansion with placeholders
- you want to reuse existing TextMate snippets

## When to avoid
- you use an editor other than Emacs
- you need full IDE-style refactoring or code generation rather than text templates

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: templating, developer-tools, editor
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: emacs-lisp, snippets, text-expansion, textmate-snippets, emacs

## Member repositories
- joaotavora/yasnippet (main) score 44

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:32.183185+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:32:13.495411+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: http://joaotavora.github.io/yasnippet/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:47:33.801262+00:00, sha d6b986b031c6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.