Atom snippet with variable in prefix

Question

Is it possible to create snippets for atom with variables in the prefix?

For example:

if I type: getPosts:: and tab, it should create something like this:

public static function getPosts(){

}

and put my cursor inside the function.

I allready tried

'.text.html.php':
  'create public static function':
    'prefix': '$1::'
    'body': 'public static function $1(){\n\t${2://code...}\n}'

but this does not work.

For what, Java? I think there are lots of plugins to do things like this, and some of it is built-in by default (I can think of some HTML examples), but Atom is for any number of languages so for it to generate code scaffolds like that for a particular language you'd probably need to customize it with a plugin. — Hack-R
– Hack-R, Commented Sep 29, 2016 at 14:56

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:10:08Z

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I do not believe it is possible to have variables in an Atom snippet. Please see more here: Snippet Variables?

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answered Feb 27, 2017 at 19:06

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