Did you put the snipMate directory that you get after unzipping directly inside ~/.vim
? Like that: ~/.vim/snipMate
?
It's its content that you have to put into ~/.vim
:
.vim ├── after │ └── plugin │ └── snipMate.vim ├── autoload │ └── snipMate.vim ├── doc │ └── snipMate.txt ├── ftplugin │ └── html_snip_helper.vim ├── plugin │ └── snipMate.vim ├── snippets │ ├── autoit.snippets │ ├── cpp.snippets │ ├── c.snippets │ ├── html.snippets │ ├── javascript.snippets │ ├── java.snippets │ ├── mako.snippets │ ├── objc.snippets │ ├── perl.snippets │ ├── php.snippets │ ├── python.snippets │ ├── ruby.snippets │ ├── sh.snippets │ ├── _.snippets │ ├── snippet.snippets │ ├── tcl.snippets │ ├── tex.snippets │ ├── vim.snippets │ └── zsh.snippets └── syntax └── snippet.vim
After that, put this line in your ~/.vimrc
:
filetype plugin on
and run this command in Vim to make the snipMate doc available:
:helptags ~/.vim/doc
If you do all that, you should be able to read the snipMate doc, which you should do before anything else:
:help snipmate
Good luck.