From: Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net>
To: mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Template substitution in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:18:33 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141110.051833.1727557154251543927.devel@pollock-nageoire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnogc6ex.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Hi,
I think srecode is exactly what you need. First look at the
info documentation and if you think that it is not enough just
have a look at the cedet project and mailing list. srecode is
part of cedet.
Regards
Pierre
From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Template substitution in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:15:18 +0100
> Hi there,
>
> assume that I want to insert an (almost) constant string in Emacs
> buffer. For instance, it may be a string of the form
>
> "I am a {my-variable}."
>
> However, I want the "{my-variable}" part to be, well, variable: I want
> to substitute the current value of `my-variable' for this. So that
>
> (setq my-variable "sentence")
> (insert (template-substitute "I am a {my-variable}."))
>
> would insert "I am a sentence." at point.
>
> Of course, I could just use (format "I am a %s." my-variable), or even
> define a function to do this. The drawback would be that if the
> "template" is a user-customizable thing, then the user would have to
> supply %s's and not meaningful names. What's more, the /order/ of the
> substituted strings would be hardcoded in the "template".
>
> Obviously, I could come up with such a function within 10-15 minutes or
> so. But why reinvent the wheel? Is there anything like this in Emacs?
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-10 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-09 23:15 Template substitution in Emacs? Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-10 2:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-11-10 2:16 ` Paul W. Rankin
2014-11-10 4:18 ` Pierre Lorenzon [this message]
2014-11-12 3:31 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-11-12 19:58 ` Pierre Lorenzon
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