[gedit-list] Snippets under plain text

[Rex Welsh <rexwelsh cogeco ca>]

Hello

I like Gedit even more now as an amateur writer. I type a word as a 
snippet name, use the same word to the right where the snipped goes, 
then type a character for the tab to work on and that word appears in my 
Plain Text document. Almost as good as WordPerfect and there are no 
brackets, braces, or odd punctuation.

The  ' Global ' area is getting full and if I try my meagre skills at 
programming, I'm in trouble.

Can somebody help me make a   Plain Text  language file so I can stick 
all the snippets (alien characters) into. I read the info on snippets 
and nothing seems to fit.

Thanks a lot.

Rex Welsh