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Asked: 2026-06-09T18:20:37+00:00

I have a problem with yasnippet and Emacs 23.4.1 on W7-64. I write a

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I have a problem with yasnippet and Emacs 23.4.1 on W7-64. I write a blog and having run into difficulties with the WordPress visual editor I am going to see whether it might be easier to simply compose everything in HTML and paste it directly into WordPress’ HTML editor. Accordingly using the rather impressive yasnippet I created the following:

#contributor : blogger
#name : blog picture link
# --
<a href="http://verylongwebsitename.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/${1:mm}/${2:folder}/fig${3:x}_l.png"><img class="alignnone" title="fig$3" src="http://verylongwebsitename.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/$1/$2/fig$3_m.png" alt="${5:alttext}" width="${6:700}" height="${7:500}" /></a>$0

to enter long and fiddly links like the one below, in html-mode:

The problem is that at some point during the process of entering the
snippet it goes funny, like this:

misbehaving yasnippet

If you look you can see that yasnippet has inserted many spaces on each line, causing much ugliness and a broken link. Because of the way that the words are sort of aligned I suspect that it’s something to do with the interaction between yasnippet and tab settings, but despite a bit of scratching around I can’t resolve the problem.

Can anybody suggest what might be causing this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After much messing around I have found that the problem was (most likely) an issue with one of Emacs’ fill modes interacting with yasnippet in an odd way. Specifically I had it set to ‘Fill’ in HTML mode and what I apparently needed was ‘Wrap’. My crude solution was to create a keyboard macro to switch modes and assign that to a shortcut key in my .emacs file as follows:

    (fset 'my-html-fill-setup
   [?\M-x ?a ?u ?t ?o ?- ?f ?i ?l ?l ?- ?m ?o ?d ?e return ?\M-x ?v ?i ?s ?u ?a ?l ?- ?l ?i ?n ?e ?- ?m ?o ?d ?e return])

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-k1" 'my-html-fill-setup)

    Apologies for any confusion caused. Incidentally, after managing to reinstall yasnippet I am loving it and find it very useful for all kinds of things.

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