# Snippet completion in Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [22. Juni 2016 um 01:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157 "2016-06-22T01:16:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mrjn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrjn)
#### Post date: [22. Juni 2016 um 01:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157/1 "2016-06-22T01:16:37Z")
Hey guys,
Instead of asking for this feature, let me quickly explain my workflow, and see if you guys can relate to it.
I primarily stick to my vim editor because of the powerful snippet plugin, like:
[https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips](https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips)
I use mutt for emailing, gohugo for blogging, and the rest of the time I’m coding – so most of my typing happens in vim, using snippets.
Every time I have to edit replies in Discourse; I miss the editor. I know most people probably don’t care, but in our company, we use discourse for everything. I mean, everything – all things emails, decisions, communication, discussions, what not. Everything happens via Discourse.
Now having a full-fledged vim editor baked into Discourse would be asking for too much (and would cause a flame war), I miss being able to use snippets.
What do you guys think? Ideas / Thoughts?
Cheers,
Manish
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22. Juni 2016 um 01:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157/2 "2016-06-22T01:21:28Z")
Why not pick an OS level snippet manager that is available to every app running in your OS including the browser?
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### Author:  [@mrjn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrjn)
#### Post date: [22. Juni 2016 um 01:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/snippet-completion-in-discourse/46157/3 "2016-06-22T01:33:29Z")
Interesting. Didn’t know about them. Sounds like it should solve my problem.
Update: Ended up using [GitHub - pviswanathan/ChromeAutoTextExpander: Google Chrome Extension : Auto Text Expander - listens for keypresses on pages that support it and will auto-replace text as you type. Keywords: javascript jquery chrome text expander replacement. · GitHub](https://github.com/carlinyuen/ChromeAutoTextExpander)