Re: the v word but not a religious salvo

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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.

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.