This is the folder where you add your personal snippets. This fold is one of 'runtimepath'. You can imagine this is another ~/.vim folder( in Unix ) or ~/vimfiles( in windows ). ============================================================================== To add your own snippets, just create a snippet file like what XPT does. For example to create a C language snippet you need to create: > personal/ftplugin/c/some_name.xpt.vim < And then add snippets in this file. See |xpt-snippet-syntax| |xpt-write-snippet| and |xpt-snippet-tutorial|. NOTE: personal snippets in this file should have high priority which is set with |xpt-snippet-priority|, for example the "personal" priority: > XPTemplate priority=personal < This is the highest priority thus no other snippets overrides yours. See |xpt-snippet-priority| You can also create snippets in some other folders and specify them as snippet folder with |g:xptemplate_snippet_folders| " vim:tw=78:ts=8:sw=8:sts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:spell: