Re: yasnippet and friends: usefull ?

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

El Martes 28 Abril 2009ES 19:37:01 Ian Eure escribió:
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was revamping my $TMP directory and found on old archive of
> > yasnippet.
> >
> > Does anybody is really using it ? I mean do you find easy to TAB
> > everytime you are typing code ? How do you use it in real life ?
> > Don't you think abbrev-* is easier and less intrusive ?
>
> Depends. For simple expansions, I prefer abbrev. Think: pub -> public,
> pro -> protected, pri -> private, etc.
>
> For more complex templates, I use yasnippet. For example, new file
> templates (where it's lisp evaluation is handy), class and function
> templates with docblocks, etc. I use it to reduce the repetitious
> parts of programming, and let me focus on getting things done.
>
>   - Ian

I agree completely. For templates like include guards, class creations and 
things like that, yasnippet is unvaluable.

Alberto