Insert debug statement with repeated string? ELSE, perhaps?

Insert debug statement with repeated string? ELSE, perhaps?

[John J. Lee]

I'd like to be able to insert debug statements that contain a repeated
string, for example:

jjl.debug('fooBar %r' % fooBar)

without typing the string 'fooBar' twice, and with not too many
keystrokes: ie without fiddling around with cursor positioning, C-y,
etc. (well, actually p or P rather than C-y for me, since I'm using
viper).

I suspect ELSE may be able to do this: does anybody have an example of
this kind of thing?

Or just some elisp usable by this elisp-illiterate?


John

Re: Insert debug statement with repeated string? ELSE, perhaps?

[Mathias Dahl]

jjl@pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:

> I'd like to be able to insert debug statements that contain a repeated
> string, for example:
>
> jjl.debug('fooBar %r' % fooBar)
>
> without typing the string 'fooBar' twice, and with not too many
> keystrokes: ie without fiddling around with cursor positioning, C-y,
> etc. (well, actually p or P rather than C-y for me, since I'm using
> viper).

I would use a keyboard macro for doing that, or put together
a simple elisp snippet if this is something I would use
often, like this:

(defun insert-debug-string (dbg-str)
 (interactive "sString to debug: ")
 (insert (format "jjl.debugs('%s %%r' %% %s )" dbg-str dbg-str)))

execute this with M-x insert-debug-string, or bind a key to
it.

There are probably hundreds of ways of doing this in Emacs,
for example using abbrevs or code skeletons, but if the
above works, it works... :)

/Mathias