Re: [eev] Back into business: eev-template ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Eduardo Ochs <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Xavier!
>
> Sorry for taking several days to answer - but at least I downloaded
> yasnippet and saw the video and got an idea of what it can do...

So what is your opinion about it ?
I find it interesting but I'd rather want to "concentrate" all my stuff
inside one huge extension instead of several small pieces.

> I do have lots of template-based functions in eev, and I use them all
> the time. They are much more low-level than yasnippet, of course, and
> most of them fall in one of these two kinds:
>
>   1. The ones that are invoked with meta-uppercase letter; they
>      operate on the current line, like M-T, M-C, and friends. See
>      this - and please run the tests:
>
>        (find-wrap-intro "All wrapping functions")

These are known to me. I pretty (ab)use of M-T these days (shell,
sqlplus, ...) with eepitch.

>   2. The ones that create temporary buffers with a sexp on top that
>      regenerates the buffer, like the ones in:

I need to have a deep sight into this. I see things I could easily
adopt.

> I have tons of things to say about them - sorry for the state of the
> docs, btw - but it would be really fantastic for me if we could chat
> by IRC... I have never had any feedback on this part of eev, and I
> guess that I could implement what you need in 10 minutes once I
> understand it better - and that would help me to write docs and
> examples and to clean the code, too.

I would be more than happy to help you in making eev still better :)
This is something I am using everytime and everyday (in conjunction with
orgmode).

> Any chance of continuing this by chat?

Sure.

> I have a lot of free time this week, and a 20-min brainstorm will
> probably be sufficient if you're busy. I am in this timezone:
>   http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/brazil/rio-de-janeiro

Mine: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/france/paris

We could have a chat by 22:00/23:00 CEST

Regards
-- 
Xavier