From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the v word but not a religious salvo
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:57:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC4ED8A.8010801@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wfx6kdm.fsf@newsguy.com>
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> There is a special mailing list for yasnippets. I think you are
>> missing something if you think it can't do more...
>>
>
> That is extremely likely.... but then too. If after say 45 minutes
> browsing around the docs and I can't write at least a super simple
> snippet. Then its either way out of my league or the docs aren't that
> good.
>
> I was hoping to get some rough idea of what it could do without
> pounding away for a week or two... just to get started.
>
> I have found it to be the case at least fairly often, that if I can't
> get some tiny start going within something like an hour or so, then
> its going to be a total pain in the butt and hefty time sync to learn
> it well. Some things are worth that... like emacs and gnus, but its
> hard to tell in advance.
>
> I was able to make inserts but I tried to write a snippet after
> reading that part of the docs and couldn't even make a start after
> reading and tinkering for around an hour.
>
Before you give up for the rest of your life:
have a look at a snippet at
yasnippet-0.6.1b/snippets/text-mode/emacs-lisp-mode
for example snippet "defun"
My bet is with your succes and delight!
Andreas
> If the vim plugin turns out to be that way too... I'll probably toss
> them both... and enlarge on my skeleton writing skills.
> It seems somewhat likely because I remember seeing when I looked at it
> on line that its based on textmate and so is yasnippets.
>
> After reading some of David K's pointer to autotype and Shelagh M'd
> encouraging comments and pointer to more skeleton info... It looks
> like I've been seriously under utilizing skeletons.
>
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-28 20:30 the v word but not a religious salvo Harry Putnam
2009-09-28 20:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-29 21:03 ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-29 21:33 ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-30 0:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-30 6:01 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-01 17:57 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2009-10-08 16:57 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.8336.1255021189.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-13 16:56 ` rustom
[not found] ` <mailman.7741.1254290555.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-30 18:13 ` Livin Stephen
2009-09-28 20:49 ` Matt Lundin
2009-09-29 23:04 ` Shelagh Manton
[not found] <mailman.7665.1254169850.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-29 8:55 ` David Kastrup
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