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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="gedit-plugins-snippets">
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugins-snippets-guide#snippets-help"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.4" date="2012-01-02" status="final"/>
  
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
     <name>Daniel Neel</name>
      <email>dneelyep@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <desc>Inserting snippets of text into your files</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Using snippets</title>

    <p>The following points will help you get started with using snippets:</p>
      
      <list>
        <item><p>Make sure the syntax is set appropriately.</p>
        <p>The status bar at the bottom of the <app>gedit</app> window will 
        show the current language setting. This language setting is what 
        allows gedit to insert the proper snippets. <app>Gedit</app> will 
        normally detect the language or syntax of the file that you're using, 
        but sometimes you may need to set it.</p></item>
      </list>
        
      <figure>
          <desc>In this example, the language is set to HTML.</desc>
            <media type="image" mime="image/png" 
            src="figures/gedit-html-snippet.png" >
            </media>
      </figure>
      
      <list>
        <item><p>Review the default snippets.</p>       
        <p>Select <guiseq><gui>Tools</gui><gui>Manage Snippets</gui></guiseq>.
        Review the snippets that are available for your language or syntax. 
        Find some basic snippets that you think might be useful for you.</p>
        </item>
        <item><p>Try using some of the snippets.</p>
        <p>For example, if you set the syntax to <em>HTML</em>, type <code>head
        </code>, and press the <key>Tab</key> key, you should see something 
        like this:</p></item>
      </list>
      
        <code>
        <![CDATA[<head>
          <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
          <title>Page Title</title>
          
        </head>]]>
        </code>

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