From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Template substitution in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:31:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oasd9jsd.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnogc6ex.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:15:18 +0100)
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> 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.
As well as the things others have mentioned there's skeleton.el which is
part of Emacs.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 3:31 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
2014-11-12 3:31 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2014-11-12 19:58 ` Pierre Lorenzon
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