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@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
 Snipmate Snippets
 =================
 
-This repository contains snippets files for various programming languages for
-the famous [snipMate][1] plugin for vim. This repository is
-community-maintained and many people have contributed snippet files and other
-improvements already.
+This repository contains snippets files for various programming languages.
+
+It was originally written for the the famous [snipMate][1] plugin for vim.
+However it appears that [Shougo's neosnippet][5] has a compatible mode allowing
+to reuse most snippets.
+
+It is community-maintained and many people have contributed snippet files and other
+improvements already. Not sure whether it implements all features such as
+guards - does anybody know?
 
 [vim-snipmate][1] was originally started by [Michael Sanders][2] who has now
 unfortunately abandoned the project. [Rok Garbas][3] is now maintaining a
 [fork][4] of the project in hopes of improving the existing code base.
 
+
 Language maintainers
 --------------------
 
@@ -27,7 +33,8 @@ Contributing notes
 ------------------
 
 Until further work is done on `vim-snipmate`, please don't add folding markers
-into snippets.
+into snippets. `vim-snipmate` has some comments about how to patch all snippets
+on the fly adding those.
 
 Authors
 -------
@@ -45,3 +52,4 @@ terms of the MIT license.
 [2]: http://github.com/msanders
 [3]: http://github.com/garbas
 [4]: http://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
+[5]: https://github.com/Shougo/neosnippet