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Since several years I've been using this snippet to insert a date into buffer:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# name: date
# key: date
# --
`(insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))`$0

However nowadays I get this annoying warning:

Warning (yasnippet): `date' modified buffer in a backquote expression.
To hide this warning, add (yasnippet backquote-change) to `warning-suppress-types'.

This is clearly related to this question, but it is not clear what is the proper way to fix the snippet (rather then just suppress the message).

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    "the solution doesn't work" - do you mean the warning is not suppressed? It should be.
    – npostavs
    Sep 18, 2016 at 16:26
  • Sorry, that was poorly worded - I've updated it (plus your answer works so thanks again!)
    – user673592
    Sep 19, 2016 at 12:17

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You should rewrite your snippet so that the backquoted expression doesn't modify the buffer, but instead returns the string to insert:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# name: date
# key: date
# --
`(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")`$0

For more examples, see yasnippet truncates clipboard contents

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