How to define yasnippet templates using elisp instead of the file system?

Question

I would like to use YASnippet template system to expand abbreviations. (I don't want to use abbrev-mode which use space or symbols for expansion.)

It is not convenient to create a new file for each of my abbreviation. Could I define yasnippet templates using elisp (in init.el) instead of using the YASnippet files structure?

Answer 1

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080319085637/http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/wiki/HowtoDefineSnippet

You can use yas-define-snippets to define a bunch of snippet for a mode at a time. The basic syntax is:

(yas-define-snippets MODE SNIPPETS)

Here's an example:

(yas-define-snippets 'text-mode
  '(("email" "`user-mail-address`" "User's email address")
    ("time" "`(current-time-string)`" "Current Time")
    ("foo" "blablablabla")))