From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: [Babel] Macro for begin_src?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:55:51 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E6FAA3A5-8EC8-4674-A56F-0AD9268EEC08@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eiieuilx.fsf@fastmail.fm>
On Apr 17, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Matt Lundin wrote:
> Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> writes:
>
>>> http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Yasnippets
>>>
>>> If anyone else has a different macro set up, I'm still interested in
>>> hearing your solutions.
>>>
>>
>> Nope, yasnippet is the way to go I think!
>
> There are quite a few other options. IMO, installing yasnippet is
> overkill if you are only using it for comment blocks in org-mode.
>
> 1. The first and simplest option is built into org-mode. Simply type:
>
> <s [TAB] or [M-TAB]
>
> This will automatically expand to:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_src
>
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> For a full list of completions, type "C-h v
> org-structure-template-alist".
>
> 2. The second option is to save the text to a register:
>
> (set-register ?b "#+begin_src\n\n#+end_src")
>
> Then type C-x r i b to insert the source block.
>
> (info "(emacs) Registers")
>
> 3. You can use abbrev mode for dynamic expansion:
>
> - Activate the abbrev minor-mode in org-mode:
>
> + M-x abbrev-mode
>
> + permanently: (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))
>
> - In org-mode, type something like "sbp" for a perl source block.
>
> - Immediately after "sbp" type C-x a i l.
>
> - Enter the expansion: #+begin_src perl[C-q C-j][C-q C-j]#+end_src
>
> + Note: the C-q C-j creates a new line in the minibuffer
>
> - Now, whenever, you type sbp[Space, RET, TAB, etc.] in an org-mode
> buffer, the src block will magically appear.
>
> - If you want more complex completion (like yasnippet) you can combine
> abbrev mode with skeletons.
>
> See:
> - (info "(emacs) Abbrevs") and
> - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SkeletonMode
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
Neat. What would you use yasnippets for, if anything?
All the best,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-18 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-17 1:18 [Babel] Macro for begin_src? Nathan Neff
2010-04-17 1:32 ` Nathan Neff
2010-04-17 2:23 ` Erik Iverson
2010-04-17 10:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-04-17 13:38 ` Nathan Neff
2010-04-18 1:01 ` Shelagh Manton
2010-04-18 10:44 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-04-19 0:24 ` Shelagh Manton
2010-04-19 2:06 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-04-19 8:33 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-04-19 11:05 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-04-20 9:19 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-04-20 10:27 ` [OT] " Eric S Fraga
2010-04-20 14:48 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-17 16:56 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-10-17 17:10 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-18 15:02 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-18 15:42 ` Dan Davison
2010-10-18 21:01 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-18 16:50 ` Greg Troxel
2010-04-17 16:52 ` Matt Lundin
2010-04-18 1:55 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-04-18 10:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-04-18 16:50 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-18 20:13 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-04-18 20:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-04-17 2:35 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-17 3:43 ` Nathan Neff
2010-04-17 3:55 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-17 11:03 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-04-17 13:56 ` Nathan Neff
2010-04-17 14:06 ` Erik Iverson
2010-04-17 14:28 ` Nathan Neff
2010-04-17 15:05 ` Eric Schulte
2010-04-17 1:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-17 1:37 ` Bernt Hansen
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