Re: Slickedit features in Emacs?

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce@zedd.org>]

Hi,

abbrev is using the current modes definition of a word to trigger
autocomplete. I added the following in my .emacs files:

  ;; modifying the syntax table to put ":" in the word constituent
  ;; table. This allows abbrev mode to use colon's as part of expansions
  (modify-syntax-entry ?: "w" c-mode-syntax-table)

  (define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table ":hstart" "" 'tempo-template-c-header-start)

You would have to do the same thing with "(" if you want it to trigger. 
But making these changes will impact any other operations that work on 
"words" in your mode. i.e. delete word would now snack on your "if(" and
not just if.

That's just my understanding, I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.

Cheers,

Bruce


In message: Re: Slickedit features in Emacs?  on May 22 Henrik J?nsson
wrote:

> Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message news:<wc3addgrtd8.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu>...
> > henrik.jonsson@se.transport.bombardier.com (Henrik Jönsson) writes:
> > 
> > > My initial question was of course if the functions in Slickedit a full if template. Can this be done with
> > > skeletons?
> > 
> > Yes, you just combine skeletons with abbrev.  I like to type "ifx " to
> > expand my template in C mode:
> > 
> > (define-skeleton my-skeleton-c-if
> >   "Insert a c if statement" nil
> >   "if (" > _ ")" \n
> >   "{" '(indent-for-tab-command) \n
> >   \n
> >   "}" '(indent-for-tab-command))
> > (define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table "ifx" "" 'my-skeleton-c-if)
> > 
> 
> Nice! Binding this to "ifx" works great. But I can't get it to bind to
> "if(". Is it possible?
> 
> /henrik
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