bug#17880: 24.4.50; [FEATURE] abbrev with skeleton

[Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2014-06-30 09:43 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The discussion with Joao convinced me that "extending skeleton" is not
> going to work quite right (IOW, it won't "cover it nicely").  So the
> idea is rather to introduce yet-another thingy, but try to make sure
> that skeleton.el can be rewritten as a "compatibility front-end", and
> same for tempo.el.

Is the discussion available somewhere? The original snippet.el (the one
that stirred the whole interest of textmate snippet feature in emacs) is
string-based and the core concept is linking similar fields with naming
i.e. multiple occurences of $${filed_name} are changed together. So if
we introduce [field-name] (or :field-name) as a new element to skeleton
to do the same that would seem to offer the core of snippet. Just
thinking though. I have never used anything beyond the original
snippet.el which is only a few hundred lines.

Leo