Re: optimal skeleton definition

[Stefan Monnier]

> being not an elisp expert i wrote this kind of skeleton to simplify my java
> getter/setter generation, which is later bound to some abbrev to be expanded
> automatically.

> - - - -

> (define-skeleton java-getter-setter
>   "inserts java getter/setter pair"
>   nil (setq v1 (skeleton-read "Input Java type: "))
>   nil (setq v2 (skeleton-read "Input property name: "))
>   (setq method-part-name (concat (upcase (substring v2 0 1)) (substring v2 
> 1)))
>   nil >"public " v1 " get" method-part-name "() {"?\n
>> "return this." v2 ";"?\n
>   "}">""?\n\n
>> "public void set" method-part-name "(" v1 " " v2 ") {"?\n
>> "this." v2 " = " v2 ";"?\n
>   "}">)

> - - - -

> the problem of the code above is, that (setq ...) functions always return
> a value and that value is printed into a buffer.  Is there a chance not to
> print the value of the setq s-expression to the buffer?

Quote your setq.  I.e. use

            '(setq foo bar)
instead of
            (setq foo bar)


-- Stefan