Dev logs is new blog series which dive deep into implementation level. The goal is to understand how things works. I figure this should be an interesting series because I always wanted to know how these program works underneath. Instead of explaining the whole code base, I will only focus on the “magical” part that sparked my interest the most. Todays I present to you aya. I started of the series with aya because, I think, it is a small package with the right portion of magic.

All of the content I presented below can be found at Auto-YASnippet Github repo. Auto-Yasnippet (aka aya) provides the following interactive commands: aya-create, aya-expand, aya-persiste-snippet, and aya-open-line: I don’t quite understand aya-open-line yet, so I will not be explaining it here. This snippet package support ad-hoc style of editing workflow where you can create useful snippet to be reused as you editing. Without aya, one would have do the following