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What's the canonical way to create xhtml snippets?

Asked by Adam Monsen

When I edit a file that Vim detects to be xhtml, I don't get to use any of the html snippets. To workaround this, I went into my working copy of ultisnips ( $HOME/.vim/ultisnips_rep/UltiSnips ) and symlinked xhtml.snippets to html.snippets.

$ ln -s html.snippets xhtml.snippets

Since I have some html snippet overrides, I made a similar symlink in $HOME/.vim/UltiSnips.

Kinda works, except in certain cases... now, when I edit a file that Vim detects at html (for instance, a blank file called "x.html") every snippet seems to be doubly defined.

Am I doing overriding or xhtml snippets incorrectly? Here's what I want:
* the ability to use all html snippets, plus a few customizations of my own
* to use this same set of snippets when editing files with filetype=xhtml

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Adam Monsen (meonkeys) said : 		#1

I figured out a partial workaround:

1. delete the symlinks (see question)
2. add custom snippets to $HOME/.vim/UltiSnips/html.snippets
3. create $HOME/.vim/UltiSnips/xhtml.snippets with one line: "extends html"

Although, now :UltiSnipsEdit doesn't work... I mean, I'd expect it to open my $HOME/.vim/UltiSnips/html.snippets or $HOME/.vim/UltiSnips/html.snippets, but instead it opens $HOME/.vim/ultisnips_rep/UltiSnips/html.snippets or $HOME/.vim/ultisnips_rep/UltiSnips/xhtml.snippets (the latter doesn't exist, btw).

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Best SirVer (sirver) said : 		#2

The extends keyword is exactly what you want to use. About the misbehaviour see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ultisnips/+bug/748433.

Another alternative is to use vims dotted filetype syntax, so for example if you use
set ft=html.xhtml

ultisnips will load both and also vim will run all ftplugins for html and xhtml.

The extends keyword is cleaner though, imho.

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Adam Monsen (meonkeys) said : 		#3

Thanks SirVer, that solved my question.