How to have same snippet with different code convetion

[Trudko]

Hi guys,

do snippets reflect the fact that different programmers have different coding conventions? What if I want to create snippets and programmer just want to change if placement of bracket from same line to new line? Does he have to override the snippet in his snippet file or is there some other way?

[leedohm]

Atom doesn’t currently have a way of properly supporting coding style such as brace conventions in features such as snippets and auto-indent. This is one of the things that long-term I would love to see Atom do. See my pie-in-the-sky topic here:

Decoupling Display Format From Storage Format

One thing has long bugged me about coding with other people (which is simply a reality for the vast majority of folks these days) ... all the holy wars over brace style, tabs versus spaces, trailing whitespace being a no-no, line length ... ad nauseam. I think I have an idea that will allow us to do away with this in one fell swoop ... The format in which I view and edit my code does not have to be a direct one-to-one representation of the code that gets stored on disk. For example, I might en…