Something like read-file-into-string needed

Something like read-file-into-string needed

[haws]

Hello everyone!

I've been trying out the snippet.el package which lets you insert
templates nicely.
But now I have a "big" template (like 100 lines) that I don't want to
put inline in my lisp function.
Instead, I'd like to have it in a file, and read this file contents
into a string.
Once in a string, I could use the regular command, snippet-insert, to
insert my template.
I've found no way to do that (only to insert the file into a buffer,
which doesn't solve my problem.)

Any tips, ideas? 

Thanks in advance,

Hugo

Re: Something like read-file-into-string needed

[Leo]

* Haws (2007-01-05 10:57 -0800) said:
  ^^^^
> Hello everyone!
>
> I've been trying out the snippet.el package which lets you insert
> templates nicely.  But now I have a "big" template (like 100 lines)
> that I don't want to put inline in my lisp function.  Instead, I'd
> like to have it in a file, and read this file contents into a
> string.  Once in a string, I could use the regular command,
> snippet-insert, to insert my template.  I've found no way to do that
> (only to insert the file into a buffer, which doesn't solve my
> problem.)
>
> Any tips, ideas? 
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hugo

(defun read-file-into-string (file)
  (interactive "f")
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents file)
    (buffer-string)))

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Re: Something like read-file-into-string needed

[haws]

Thank you very much!
And just learned two nice tricks!

Leo escreveu:

> * Haws (2007-01-05 10:57 -0800) said:
>   ^^^^
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I've been trying out the snippet.el package which lets you insert
> > templates nicely.  But now I have a "big" template (like 100 lines)
> > that I don't want to put inline in my lisp function.  Instead, I'd
> > like to have it in a file, and read this file contents into a
> > string.  Once in a string, I could use the regular command,
> > snippet-insert, to insert my template.  I've found no way to do that
> > (only to insert the file into a buffer, which doesn't solve my
> > problem.)
> >
> > Any tips, ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Hugo
>
> (defun read-file-into-string (file)
>   (interactive "f")
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (insert-file-contents file)
>     (buffer-string)))
>
> --
> Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)