Re: yasnippet and friends: usefull ?

[Ian Eure <ian@digg.com>]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Xavier Maillard wrote:

>
>   On 2009-04-28 07:34 +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was revamping my $TMP directory and found on old archive of
>> yasnippet.
>>
>> Does anybody is really using it ? I mean do you find easy to TAB
>> everytime you are typing code ? How do you use it in real life ?
>> Don't you think abbrev-* is easier and less intrusive ?
>
>   I use a modified snippet.el that integrates into abbrev  
> seamlessly. I
>   like it better than yasnippet.
>
> Why ? Is it available somewhere ? How do you practically use it ?
> Along my previous post, I decided to try yasnippet. It is nice
> but you have to remember what is the "combo trigger" to use in
> order to have it does something ;)
>
(setq yas/trigger-key (kbd "SPC"))

The other I prefer about yasnippet is that it will expand snippets  
containing non-word-constituent characters, which abbrev can't. So I  
can't have "@p" expand to "@param" with abbrev, but I can with  
yasnippet.

  - Ian