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Asked: 2026-05-30T21:32:16+00:00

EDIT My issue was related to snippet syntax all along… The configuration below totally

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EDIT My issue was related to snippet syntax all along… The configuration below totally works.

I’m trying to use org-mode and yasnippet together and it’s not working even with some of the workarounds on the org-mode FAQ. Whenever I hit TAB on a snippet abbreviation the word gets deleted. TAB behaves normally if I’m not over a snippet word, so there’s something going on…

I’m using Org-mode version 7.7, yasnippet (version 0.7.0), and GNU Emacs 23.4.1.

Here’s my setup:

(setq load-path
      (append (list nil
                    "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/yasnippet"
                    "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-7.7/lisp")
              load-path))

;; set up yasnippet
(require 'yasnippet)
(yas/initialize)
(setq yas/snippet-dirs '("~/.emacs.d/mysnippets"
                         "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/yasnippet/snippets"))
(mapc 'yas/load-directory yas/snippet-dirs)

;; set up org mode
(require 'org-install)
;; fix some org-mode + yasnippet conflicts:
(defun yas/org-very-safe-expand ()
  (let ((yas/fallback-behavior 'return-nil)) (yas/expand)))

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (make-variable-buffer-local 'yas/trigger-key)
            (setq yas/trigger-key [tab])
            (add-to-list 'org-tab-first-hook 'yas/org-very-safe-expand)
            (define-key yas/keymap [tab] 'yas/next-field)))

And I’m pretty sure the hook is running as expected because of the following output of C-h v org-tab-first-hook in an org buffer:

org-tab-first-hook is a variable defined in `org.el'.
Its value is
(yas/org-very-safe-expand org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)

And here’s C-h k TAB in an org buffer:

<tab> runs the command org-cycle, which is an interactive Lisp
function in `org.el'.

EDIT

After doing a edebug-defun on my yas/org-very-safe-expand function I’m seeing the following message

Result: "[yas] elisp error! Symbol's value as variable is void: err"

So yas is error’ing out somewhere… My edebug foo is not quite up to par but if I get some time I’ll try to single step through and see where the error is. My full emacs configuration is on github here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out my issue was related to snippet syntax, not setup. Silly silly me…

    In other words, this totally works:

    ;; fix some org-mode + yasnippet conflicts:
(defun yas/org-very-safe-expand ()
  (let ((yas/fallback-behavior 'return-nil)) (yas/expand)))

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (make-variable-buffer-local 'yas/trigger-key)
            (setq yas/trigger-key [tab])
            (add-to-list 'org-tab-first-hook 'yas/org-very-safe-expand)
            (define-key yas/keymap [tab] 'yas/next-field)))
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