From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Lundin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the v word but not a religious salvo Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:49:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hviak30.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254171066 9885 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 20:51:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:51:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 22:50:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MsNBS-0000pR-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:50:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsNBS-0006g8-2l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsNAt-0006cf-Kq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsNAo-0006al-I8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54459 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsNAo-0006ag-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52171) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsNAn-0006cO-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MsNAk-0000bL-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-99-181-134-8.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net ([99.181.134.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: from mdl by adsl-99-181-134-8.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:50:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-99-181-134-8.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hXagqQ5QYVdhzx+VzpvgyPC+jC8= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68521 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > One vim plugin I've seen in use called xpt looks and sounds very very > useful. > > There is a (thankfully short) online demo, you may find it somewhat > poorly done... I did. However it does give a good hint as to the > power of this type of approach to helping programmers along with > inserting oft repeated things and even whole script outlines. > > (vim xpt templates plugin) > http://vimeo.com/4449258 > > I'm not plugging for vim... what I want to ask is if there is any kind > of thing like this available for emacs. I believe you're looking for yasnippet: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ Best, Matt