diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index eb08a6fef..513dea0c0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 [submodule "elisp/racer"]
 	path = elisp/racer
 	url = https://github.com/phildawes/racer
+[submodule "private/snippets"]
+	path = private/snippets
+	url = git://github.com/hlissner/emacs-snippets.git
diff --git a/private/snippets b/private/snippets
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..9ec810841
--- /dev/null
+++ b/private/snippets
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 9ec810841dc96e5312b5b78b1556f6585af02c4f