snippet not recognized -- yasnippet

Question

my question is pretty basic but I don't know how to create yasnippets properly. I have created some snippets for Java or html with yas-new-snippets, installed them under emacs.d/snippets/org-mode, but they only work when I invoke them from org-mode , not from Java-mode (or JDEE) or html-mode, which is not very useful...

Here is my config file:

(add-to-list 'load-path
         "~/.emacs.d/elpa/yasnippet-20160801.1142")
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas-global-mode 1)
(add-to-list 'yas-snippet-dirs "~/.emacs.d/snippets")

The variable yas-snippet-dirs yields: ("~/.emacs.d/snippets" "/Users/me/.emacs.d/snippets" yas-installed-snippets-dir) so I tried to put directly under .emacs.d/snippets/ but they are not recognized.

Any idea? Thanks!

Answer 1

Did you use the right table ? yas-new-snippet creates the snippets for org mode if you use it in an org-mode buffer, except you changed the table manually. In other words, each major-mode got its own snippets and snippet directory.