Re: jump to place holder and mapping

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
 > On 2005-03-30, Fabian Braennstroem <fab@ddorf.de> wrote:
 >> 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...

Isn't that exactly what is meant by the "points of interest"?

;; A template is defined as a list of items to be inserted in the
;; current buffer at point. Some of the items can be simple strings,
;; while other can control formatting or define special points of
;; interest in the inserted text.

;; If a template defines a "point of interest" that point is inserted
;; in a buffer-local list of "points of interest" that the user can
;; jump between with the commands `tempo-backward-mark' and
;; `tempo-forward-mark'. If the template definer provides a prompt for
;; the point, and the variable `tempo-interactive' is non-nil, the
;; user will be prompted for a string to be inserted in the buffer,
;; using the minibuffer.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers