Re: snippet.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'm interested in hearing what people think of snippet.el
>> and how it compares, for convenience, with skeleton.el and tempo.el.
>> Should we install snippet.el?
>> If we install snippet.el, are the other two still useful?
>> Can we mark one or both obsolete?

> Could msf-abbrev.el, "mode specific abbreviations" please also be
> included in this discussion? I havent used snippet.el, but Ive used the
> other ones, and of these  msf-abbrev is the most convenient.

There's a whole bunch of alternatives indeed.  I remember looking at Tempo
and Skeleton and thinking it'd be good to unify them.
Both are used by other Elisp packages so we can't just drop them without
providing backward compatibility.


        Stefan