Re: the v word but not a religious salvo

[Lennart Borgman]

There is a special mailing list for yasnippets. I think you are
missing something if you think it can't do more...


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>> I wondered if anyone here is at all familiar with the different
>>> insertions related plugins for vim?
>>
>> I am not using it currently, but have you looked at yasnippet
>>
>>    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Yasnippet
>>
>> It would be interesting to hear how it compare. (Maybe you could add
>> something on the wiki?)
>
> I can't compare because I haven't used vims xpt but so far I guess I'm
> a little bit disappointed.
>
> The docs say you can insert whole templates but when I tried that in
> cperl mode... I find most of them aren't anything more than what cperl
> already does.  There are a few on the list that do more.
>
> But for example... the for loop template inserts a kind of for loop
> that isn't near as common this kind... at least in my experience:
>
>  for (@ar){
>    dosomething;
>  }
>
> Instead it offers:
>
>   for (my $var = 0; $var < expression; $var++) {
>      # body...
>   }
> Which is really a different kind of usage.
>
> I realize you can make your own and edit the defaults... but then I
> can already do that with skeletons.
>
> The difference is that you can tab thru the for loop offered and fill
> it out all the way ... so that is saying something.  But most of the
> offerings for perl that isn't true.  Or only partly true.
>
> Somehow I guess I expected more.. like a whole starter script being
> inserted.
>
> I'm sure I can set that up in yasnippets too, but I already have a
> skeleton doing that job.
>
> Hopefully as I work with yasnippets and learn more about it... it will
> get better and better.
>
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