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yasnippet does not complete snippets that I add to yas/root-directory (typing the key and hitting tab does not complete).

If I remove .yas-compiled-snippets.el from an affected directory, then run yas/recompile-all then yas/reload-all, I can temporarily use the snippets in that directory. This works for one emacs session, but when I start emacs again, yasnippet again does not recognize the extra snippets.

How can I make the configuration "stick" across runs of emacs?

My yasnippet configuration is like this:

(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/initialize)
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook '(lambda ()
                               (yas-minor-mode)))
(add-to-list 'yas/root-directory "/path/to/elisp/yasnippet-snippets/")
(add-to-list 'yas/root-directory "/path/to/elisp/yasnippet-extra-snippets/")
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  • The doc-string for yas-snippet-dirs may answer your question. M-x describe-variable RET yas-snippet-dirs RET. The variable name yas/root-directory is a backwards-compatible alias. "Directory or list of snippet dirs for each major mode. The directory where user-created snippets are to be stored. Can also be a list of directories. In that case, when used for bulk (re)loading of snippets (at startup or via 'yas-reload-all'), directories appearing earlier in the list shadow other dir's snippets. Also, the first directory is taken as the default for storing the user's new snippets."
    – lawlist
    Apr 5 '15 at 16:07
  • @lawlist That doesn't seem to point to a problem in my case: my own snippet directories appear first on yas-snippet-dirs (and also the snippet I tested with has a key that is not used in the snippets that come with yasnippet)
    – Croad Langshan
    Apr 5 '15 at 18:51
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yas-reload-all is the correct way to tell yasnippet about updates to yas-snippet-dirs (aka yas/root-directory), recompilation is not needed.

yas/initialize is basically an obsolete way of saying (yas-global-mode +1), hence your python-mode-hook is redundant. yas-global-mode also calls yas-reload-all when it's turned on, so if you just set yas-snippet-dirs before calling it, your snippets will already be picked up:

(require 'yasnippet)
(add-to-list 'yas-snippet-dirs "/path/to/elisp/yasnippet-snippets/")
(add-to-list 'yas-snippet-dirs "/path/to/elisp/yasnippet-extra-snippets/")
(yas-global-mode +1)

Or, enabling yasnippet only in python-mode:

(require 'yasnippet)
(add-to-list 'yas-snippet-dirs "/path/to/elisp/yasnippet-snippets/")
(add-to-list 'yas-snippet-dirs "/path/to/elisp/yasnippet-extra-snippets/")
(yas-reload-all)
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook #'yas-minor-mode)
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  • Thanks! I actually don't really want yasnippet elsewhere than python-mode at the moment, so I added (yas-reload-all) to my hook (and removed the yas/initialize)
    – Croad Langshan
    Apr 5 '15 at 20:05
  • @CroadLangshan: reloading in the hook is overkill, since it runs every time you open a new python file. I added an example for enabling yasnippet only in python-mode.
    – npostavs
    Apr 5 '15 at 20:56
  • Oops, very lazy of me. And ditto re eliminating the lambda. Out of curiosity: are you using the # there just as a coding style convention because sometimes it's useful as documentation to make it clear that it's a function? Seems it can be omitted here...
    – Croad Langshan
    Apr 5 '15 at 22:49
  • yes, #' vs ' in this case is just style, see stackoverflow.com/a/16802304/319698 and emacs.stackexchange.com/a/5364/5296
    – npostavs
    Apr 6 '15 at 14:47
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    “...so if you just set yas-snippet-dirs before calling it, your snippets will already be picked up”. The before part was what I was missing.
    – Fernando Basso
    Aug 19 '21 at 11:00

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