Re: Something like read-file-into-string needed

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

* Haws (2007-01-05 10:57 -0800) said:
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> Hello everyone!
>
> I've been trying out the snippet.el package which lets you insert
> templates nicely.  But now I have a "big" template (like 100 lines)
> that I don't want to put inline in my lisp function.  Instead, I'd
> like to have it in a file, and read this file contents into a
> string.  Once in a string, I could use the regular command,
> snippet-insert, to insert my template.  I've found no way to do that
> (only to insert the file into a buffer, which doesn't solve my
> problem.)
>
> Any tips, ideas? 
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hugo

(defun read-file-into-string (file)
  (interactive "f")
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents file)
    (buffer-string)))

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