Snippets package

Expand snippets matching the current prefix with tab in Atom.

Select the Atom > Open Your Snippets menu to add your own snippets.

Snippet Format

Snippets files are stored in a package's snippets/ folder and also loaded from ~/.atom/snippet.cson.

Snippet files can be either .json or .cson.

'.source.js':
  'console.log':
    'prefix': 'log'
    'body': 'console.log(${1:"crash"});$2'

The outermost keys are the selectors where this snippets should be active.

The next level of keys are the snippet names.

Under each snippet name is a prefix that should trigger the snippet and a body to insert when the snippet is triggered.

$ followed by a number are the tabs stops which can be cycled between by pressing tab once a snippet has been triggered.

The above example adds a log snippet to JavaScript files that would expad to.

console.log("crash");

The string "crash" would be initially selected and pressing tab again would place the cursor after the ;