Is there a way to add custom variables when creating custom Atom code snippets?

Question

I want to create custom snippets in Atom, but I want to be able to supply custom variables and it automatically uses those. For example, I want to be able to type something like nm methodName param1 param2 and it generates the code:

methodName(param1, param2) {

}

However, when reading over the documentation, I see it explain how to create a premade code snippet, but I don't see it explain how to do a snippet that would change based on what was submitted. Do any of you have any idea how to do this?

Answer 1

It doesn't seem like there is a way to do what you want to do -- see the accepted answer for this question. You may be able to find or build an extension that lets you do that, but it doesn't seem to exist in Atom by default.

What you can do is set up custom snippets that are relatively open to a lot of different uses. For example, to make a new method, you could try this, which will let you name the function and type in as many arguments as you want:

    'New Method':
      'prefix': 'nm'
      'body': """
        ${1:methodName} (${2:argList}) {
            ${3:functionBody}
        }
      """