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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: function for inserting a block
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 23:28:59 +0100
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To: Takaaki Ishikawa <takaxp@ieee.org>
Cc: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>, "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, "Berry, Charles" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>

Hello,

Takaaki Ishikawa <takaxp@ieee.org> writes:

> I also support the idea of keeping "<s" as it was.
> Please give importance to the backward compatibility in this case.

I explained why I thought it could be removed. I also suggested
solutions to get an equivalent feature without implementing it in Org.

What is wrong with Abbrev mode, skeletons, tempo.el, expand.el, all
bundled with Emacs, or YASnippet, in the Emacs ecosystem? It sounds like
NIH. Or, to put it differently: why in the world would Org implement its
own template system?

The only argument so far is "<" cannot be expanded since it not word
constituent. Seriously. "<" has no meaning anyway. You can use "@",
which is word constituent and just as meaningless. So, you can define,
e.g., a skeleton, that will expand "@s" to "#+begin_src\n#+end_src".

We can even document how to do it in the manual.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou