Re: the v word but not a religious salvo

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
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>> There is a special mailing list for yasnippets. I think you are
>> missing something if you think it can't do more...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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.
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> 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.
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