From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Problem positioning cursor
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:06:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84of2te4kn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5188.1051270162.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Victor Kirk <Victor.Kirk@serco.com> writes:
> I've wrote a function to insert a skeleton for a java try-catch
> block, but I've run into a problem leaving the cursor in the
> correct place.
First of all, maybe you want to use skeletons rather than hand-coding
everything. It will be easier to understand.
I think that skeletons can't do what you need, though. There is a
change that adds the capability you need which has been committed to
the development release of Emacs in the last couple of days, or which
will be committed soon.
However, maybe you want to read up on skeletons anyway -- they might
come in useful for other things you are doing.
Failing the use of skeletons, a technique I suggest to use for the
hand-written functions is save-excursion. For example, here is
something that inserts foo() and leaves point inside the parentheses:
(insert "foo(")
(save-excursion
(insert ")")
I think you will find this much easier to understand that your
hand-coded remembering of positions, and thus it will be easier to
find the bugs.
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2003-04-26 14:06 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-04-26 15:24 ` Problem positioning cursor Oliver Scholz
2003-04-27 11:47 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 12:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-25 11:01 Victor Kirk
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