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Snippets for Atom

Snippets are bits of text that get inserted into your editor, to save typing and reduce syntax errors. The snippets provided in atom-snippets.cson are scoped to only work on Markdown files within Atom.

Installation

Copy the contents of the atom-snippets.cson file into your existing ~/.atom/snippets.cson. Do not replace your existing file.

You do not need to restart Atom.

Usage

Have a look through atom-snippets.cson and note the titles and prefix values of the snippets.

You can trigger a given snippet in one of two ways:

• By typing the snippet's prefix and pressing the <TAB> key
• By searching for the snippet's title in Packages / Snippets / Available

For example, open a Markdown file and type anote and press <TAB>. A blank note is added, with the correct Hugo shortcodes.

A snippet can insert a single line or multiple lines of text. Some snippets have placeholder values. To get to the next placeholder, press <TAB> again.

Some of the snippets only insert partially-formed Markdown or Hugo syntax. For instance, coverview inserts the start of a concept overview tag, while cclose inserts a close-capture tag. This is because every type of capture needs a capture-close tab.

Creating new topics using snippets

To create a new concept, task, or tutorial from a blank file, use one of the following:

• newconcept
• newtask
• newtutorial

Placeholder text is included.

Submitting new snippets

1. Develop the snippet locally and verify that it works as expected.
2. Copy the template's code into the atom-snippets.cson file on Github. Raise a pull request, and ask for review from another Atom user in #sig-docs on Kubernetes Slack.