From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: is there summary of template systems for emacs? Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:34:59 -0800 Message-ID: <003101c954de$f95a3000$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228264531 27029 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2008 00:35:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:35:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Xah Lee'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 01:36:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7fjF-0007A6-47 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:36:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7fi4-0008F8-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7fhl-0008Eu-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7fhl-0008Ef-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:35:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53684 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7fhk-0008Eb-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:35:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:41882 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7fhk-0004Bc-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:35:00 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB30YiQW021343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:46 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt702.oracle.com (acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB30ZEiQ018395; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:35:15 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.65.247) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:34:53 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AclU2TRelYryDuRsTo6owpKfacZzIwABTKlg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Source-IP: acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A01020A.4935D42E.0099:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60325 Archived-At: > there seems to be a lot elisp packages for defining templates. Has > anyone studied them and can give a comparison? Basically, i just need > a brief explanation of their syntax and feature. > > the emacswiki page > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryTemplates > is very helpful in listing them but a clear summary and comparison is > lacking. here's what i found so far.... Good idea. Please update the wiki with a summary of the info you found and whatever else comes out of this thread that might be helpful. The next person who looks where you did will then find that missing help. ;-)