From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: snippet.el Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193423937 13573 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2007 18:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 26 20:38:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlU52-0002vF-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:38:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlU4t-0005wR-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlU4p-0005tJ-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlU4o-0005pS-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlU4o-0005p9-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from vpn-132-204-232-28.acd.umontreal.ca ([132.204.232.28] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlU4n-0003SH-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:33 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 87E11B4AB3; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:38:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Fri\, 26 Oct 2007 10\:30\:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81781 Archived-At: >> I'm interested in hearing what people think of snippet.el >> and how it compares, for convenience, with skeleton.el and tempo.el. >> Should we install snippet.el? >> If we install snippet.el, are the other two still useful? >> Can we mark one or both obsolete? > Could msf-abbrev.el, "mode specific abbreviations" please also be > included in this discussion? I havent used snippet.el, but Ive used the > other ones, and of these msf-abbrev is the most convenient. There's a whole bunch of alternatives indeed. I remember looking at Tempo and Skeleton and thinking it'd be good to unify them. Both are used by other Elisp packages so we can't just drop them without providing backward compatibility. Stefan