From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: yasnippet and friends: usefull ? Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:08:45 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <200904282225.n3SMP36j017386@zogzog.maillard.mobi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241005876 19148 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2009 11:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:51:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 13:51:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lz8Jd-0001su-Tf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:51:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lz8Jd-0008Vr-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:51:05 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 59 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19K1uXZTOsHWjhBudfbZmbVEePqG3dhJffxOxyjqewst9BUUb9CbdesGgQonl+icE2+uR2PnxC5GQXemT/OuuTV/4CW9DIcqWSk6jJ3LqZd77T0PLZBgHLd7QLRY4/z7HgHnb4kZ8ybWQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:08:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+y0pv72JM7HufkaryeIug4bG4PkvyjJxV1lZDHx9cA6w== Cancel-Lock: sha1:x8qoxKSty2OjREdR2vfQFit179g= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168820 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64097 Archived-At: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com writes: > Hi, > NOTE: > Instead of yasnippet, you can use also else-mode: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElseMode > > It's very well documented. > > I prefer it than yasnippet. Just as an aside noticing it's not hosted on the wiki (it would be nice if it was), Andy Stewart wrote a great utility suite for accessing emacs wiki code : see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoInstall ,---- | 1. Find the Elisp file. Locate it on the web, either from a private site, or from a code repository such as the EmacsWiki ElispArea or gist. | 2. Asynchronous parallel download the file. | 3. Batch install files Some extension (such as Icicles) have many packages need install, and install those packages one by one is painful. | 4. View differences with the old version. Sometimes, you’ll want to view the differences between the new and old versions before you update. | 5. Save the Elisp file. You might keep your elisp files organized by categories, but this causes its own problems: if you download a new elisp file, you need to make sure you’re deleting the old one, a hassle if the file is located deep in a storage directory. | 6. Install the Elisp file. | 7. Keep the Elisp file updated. `---- It has saved me a lot of time - especially with the "update" feature. (also, the instructions for "else" talk about installing help files into ~/info which is wrong for most of us). > > Xavier Maillard writes: > >> On 2009-04-28 07:34 +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was revamping my $TMP directory and found on old archive of >> > yasnippet. >> > >> > Does anybody is really using it ? I mean do you find easy to TAB >> > everytime you are typing code ? How do you use it in real life ? >> > Don't you think abbrev-* is easier and less intrusive ? >> >> I use a modified snippet.el that integrates into abbrev seamlessly. I >> like it better than yasnippet. >> >> Why ? Is it available somewhere ? How do you practically use it ? >> Along my previous post, I decided to try yasnippet. It is nice >> but you have to remember what is the "combo trigger" to use in >> order to have it does something ;) >> >> regards >> >> Xavier --