Re: jump to place holder and mapping

[Fabian Braennstroem <fab@ddorf.de>]

Hi,

On 2005-03-30, Fabian Braennstroem <fab@ddorf.de> wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>  I am trying 'vim' for a while now and actually like the
>  jumping to place holders indicated by '<++>' with 'C-j'. It
>  is very usefull, when you have small macro/abbreviations
>  including these place holders; e.g. in latex there exist a
>  macro:
> 
>  \frac{<++>}{<++>}<++>
> 
>  So you are able to complete quickly the fraction.
> 
>  Furthermore, defining those 'macros' is pretty easy in vim
>  with the 'imap' funtion; so writing in insert-mode some
>  special shortcut, it expands to the wanted output with those
>  place holders. 

I just found 'tempo'. I think that should work for this, but
I can't find anything like placeholders...
 
>  Does anybody have an idea how to achive this with emacs?
>  Maybe, there is even a package for that!?
> 
>  Greetings, Fabian

Greetings, Fabian