From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Template substitution in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:15:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnogc6ex.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
Hi there,
assume that I want to insert an (almost) constant string in Emacs
buffer. For instance, it may be a string of the form
"I am a {my-variable}."
However, I want the "{my-variable}" part to be, well, variable: I want
to substitute the current value of `my-variable' for this. So that
(setq my-variable "sentence")
(insert (template-substitute "I am a {my-variable}."))
would insert "I am a sentence." at point.
Of course, I could just use (format "I am a %s." my-variable), or even
define a function to do this. The drawback would be that if the
"template" is a user-customizable thing, then the user would have to
supply %s's and not meaningful names. What's more, the /order/ of the
substituted strings would be hardcoded in the "template".
Obviously, I could come up with such a function within 10-15 minutes or
so. But why reinvent the wheel? Is there anything like this in Emacs?
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
next reply other threads:[~2014-11-09 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-09 23:15 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-11-10 2:13 ` Template substitution in Emacs? Eric Abrahamsen
2014-11-10 2:16 ` Paul W. Rankin
2014-11-10 4:18 ` Pierre Lorenzon
2014-11-12 3:31 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-11-12 19:58 ` Pierre Lorenzon
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