Homepage: http://nschum.de/src/emacs/tempo-snippets
Author: Nikolaj Schumacher
Updated:
Visual insertion of tempo templates
IMPORTANT:
Correct use of this package in C-derived (and maybe other) modes depends on
the following bug being fixed:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00303.html
It will only work correctly in Emacs 22.2 and later!
Add the following to your .emacs file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/tempo-snippets/")
(autoload 'tempo-define-snippet "tempo-snippets")
Then use `tempo-define-snippet' instead of `tempo-define-template'. The
arguments can remain the same. Insertion works like for any tempo-template
with `tempo-template-your-template-name'.
You can replace all templates by snippets with the following line.
Use with care!
(defalias 'tempo-define-template 'tempo-define-snippet)
When adding lisp forms in your templates that use `tempo-lookup-named', make
sure they don't have side-effects, because they will be evaluated every time
the variables change.
Here are two examples:
(tempo-define-snippet "java-class"
'("class " (p "Class: " class) " {\n\n"
> "public " (s class) "(" p ") {\n" > p n
"}" > n n "}" > n))
(tempo-define-snippet "java-get-set"
'("private " (p "Type: " type) " _" (p "Name: " var) ";\n\n"
> "public " (s type) " get" (upcase-initials (tempo-lookup-named 'var))
"() {\n"
> "return _" (s var) ";\n" "}" > n n
> "public set" (upcase-initials (tempo-lookup-named 'var))
"(" (s type) " value) {\n"
> "_" (s var) " = value;\n" "}" > n))
Note the forms in the second example. It calls `upcase-initials' every time
you change the first variable name.
You can navigate between input forms with `tempo-snippets-next-field' and
`tempo-snippets-previous-field'. When the point is on an input field, those
commands are bound to M-n and M-p by default. You can use
`tempo-snippets-keymap' to bind keys for input fields.
If you want to add a snippet to your abbrev table, you can do
M-x tempo-snippets-add-mode-abbrev or M-x tempo-snippets-add-global-abbrev.