Re: [O] Customizing "Easy Templates"?

[Michael Hannon]

Thanks, Eric.  You're not the first person to suggest that I look into 
yasnippets, and it's on my to-do list.  (Using Emacs is a little like being in 
the Red Queen's race:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race

;-)

-- Mike




----- Original Message ----
> From: Eric S Fraga <address@hidden>
> To: suvayu ali <address@hidden>
> Cc: Michael Hannon <address@hidden>; Org-Mode List 
<address@hidden>
> Sent: Thu, July 7, 2011 1:30:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [O] Customizing "Easy Templates"?
> 
> suvayu ali <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hey  Mike,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Michael Hannon <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>  I can't figure out how to
> >> customize the text of these templates.   Can anybody point me in the right
> >>  direction?
> >>
> >
> > This should work:
> >
> >  (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> >           '("S" "#+BEGIN_SRC ?\n\n#+END_SRC" "<src  lang=\"?\">\n\n</src>"))
> 
> Mike,
> 
> if you intend to customise  further than this, you might wish to consider
> using yasnippets [1] instead of  these templates, although these
> templates are indeed quite useful!  I  use both but, for instance, for
> source blocks, I have the following snippet  defined:
> 
> --8<---------------cut  here---------------start------------->8---
> #name : #+begin_src language  options ...#+end_src
> # --
> #+srcname: $1
> #+begin_src $2  $3
> $0
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut  here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> so that typing "src TAB"  starts defining a source block with subsequent
> TABs allowing me to fill in  the name, the language, the arguments and
> finally puts me into the actual  code section.
> 
> The nice thing about yasnippets is that you can have  defaults for any of
> the fields.  For instance, here is one I use for  Java files (not org):
> 
> --8<---------------cut  here---------------start------------->8---
> #contributor: dobbymoodge  <address@hidden>
> #name :  public? class ... { ... }
> # --
> // Copyright (c) 2011, Eric S Fraga, All  rights reserved.
> package ${1:jacaranda.design};
> 
> import  jacaranda.base.Settings;
> 
> ${2:public} class ${3:foo} ${4:extends  jacaranda.base.EGO}
> {
>   public static boolean debug =  false;
>   private static final int dl = 5;
>   private static  String version = "2011.03.02 20:04:40";
>   static {
>      Settings.output.printf (": <%s> $3\n", version);
>   }
>    ${5:public} $3 () {
>     $0
>   }
> } // end of $3  class
> 
> // Local Variables:
> // time-stamp-line-limit: 1000
> //  time-stamp-format: "%04y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M:%02S"
> // time-stamp-active:  t
> // time-stamp-start: "version = \""
> // time-stamp-end: "\";"
> //  End:
> --8<---------------cut  here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> for when I start a new  class file.
> 
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Yasnippet
> 
> -- 
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG:  0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.5  (release_7.5.586.g382e6)
>