From: Paul Rankin <hello@paulwrankin.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Define skeleton from alist?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:00:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1468476023.2261456.665866481.054747A3@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQSHOHrAHe9TaZ7HAt06x5cizHJ9MjH=RaUGez9HZA4hmQ@mail.gmail.com>
John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> on Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:38 -0700:
> Paul Rankin <hello@paulwrankin.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to create a skeleton with define-skeleton using strings from
> > an alist. The skeleton should loop through the alist using the car of
> > each element as both the prompt and first string inserted, then the
> > cadr as initial value for user input.
>
> I've never used skeleton but, from a quick look, it seems to me you
> might be better served by a normal command. Is there a specific reason
> you want/need to use skeleton?
I wanted to use a skeleton for auto-insert. It would appear define-auto-insert uses the skeleton language, but I would assume it can also be fed a command.
> If I understand correctly, this will achieve something like the final
> result you want:
>
> (defun fountain-title-page-function ()
> (interactive)
> (dolist (elt fountain-title-page-list)
> (let ((key (car elt))
> (val (cadr elt)))
> (insert key ": " (read-string (concat key ": ") val) "\n"))))
This works. Thank you. Although I ended up going with a static skeleton, because...
> The reason this seems preferable to me, based on the stated problem, is
> that it's impossible for a solution with skeleton to be much simpler
> than the command above. By definition, the solution with skeleton will
> still need a loop, etc.
It does seem like defining a skeleton from an arbitrarily long list is unduly difficult.
I wanted to use lisp expressions as initial values (e.g. (format-time-string "%F")) so in the end I figured it was unwise to go with a defcustom and then eval the cadrs. So I went with a static skeleton. More control for me, less for the user. Oh well.
Thanks for your help!
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2016-07-13 8:11 Define skeleton from alist? Paul Rankin
2016-07-14 2:38 ` John Mastro
2016-07-14 6:00 ` Paul Rankin [this message]
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2016-07-13 21:37 ` Gene
2016-07-14 1:12 ` Paul Rankin
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2016-07-15 1:13 ` Gene
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