gedit snippet not working on new system

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 06:53:54 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>I have these snippets Ive used for years now.
>This one is not working.
>
>tab+t = $(date + "%H%M ")
>simply puts in the time for me and the other
>
>tab+q = [QUOTE] $0 [/QUOTE]
>is for quotes.
>
>I tried creating a new snippet.
>I tried importing the one that works from my laptop.
>I just copied over the xml file.
>Still doesnt work.
>
>When you hit tab+t, you see the t on screen and then the
>tab backspaces over it. No time is seen.

You should mention what Ubuntu (flavour) release you are using and what
version of gedit. From what release or upgrade on it stopped working?

Btw. I'm too stupid to understand
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/Plugins/Snippets or how you add those
snippets. I'm not a gedit user at all, but for testing purpose I run
it, checked the snippets plugin and tried to add a snippet without
success.

I'm currently not booted into my Ubuntu install, so I tested with

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ gedit -V
gedit - Version 3.28.1
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	1.4
Distributor ID:	Arch
Description:	Arch Linux
Release:	rolling
Codename:	n/a