Re: function for inserting a block

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Aloha Nicolas,

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> 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 "why in the world" question is likely one that can be answered by
the author of the Org 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.

For me, the issue isn't about how the template system is implemented, it
is about backwards compatibility of (org-try-structure-completion).

All the best,
Tom

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