From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "haws" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Something like read-file-into-string needed Date: 5 Jan 2007 12:41:31 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1168029691.097537.81940@i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1168023456.119091.38300@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168033241 16110 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2007 21:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 22:40:40 2007 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 1H2wnd-000472-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2wnc-0008PG-Ij for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.21.235.16 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1168029704 12439 127.0.0.1 (5 Jan 2007 20:41:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:41:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 fw.datacom-telematica.com.br:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.21.235.16; posting-account=pG57fA0AAADtQ-4h1MyvjXjZpSNZC0zj Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144559 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:40163 Archived-At: Thank you very much! And just learned two nice tricks! Leo escreveu: > * Haws (2007-01-05 10:57 -0800) said: > ^^^^ > > Hello everyone! > > > > I've been trying out the snippet.el package which lets you insert > > templates nicely. But now I have a "big" template (like 100 lines) > > that I don't want to put inline in my lisp function. Instead, I'd > > like to have it in a file, and read this file contents into a > > string. Once in a string, I could use the regular command, > > snippet-insert, to insert my template. I've found no way to do that > > (only to insert the file into a buffer, which doesn't solve my > > problem.) > > > > Any tips, ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Hugo > > (defun read-file-into-string (file) > (interactive "f") > (with-temp-buffer > (insert-file-contents file) > (buffer-string))) > > -- > Leo (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)