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Re: jump to place holder and mapping
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Fabian Braennstroem |
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Re: jump to place holder and mapping |
Date: |
31 Mar 2005 17:43:04 GMT |
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On 2005-03-31, Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> > On 2005-03-30, Fabian Braennstroem <fab@ddorf.de> wrote:
> >> I am trying 'vim' for a while now and actually like the
> >> jumping to place holders indicated by '<++>' with 'C-j'. It
> >> is very usefull, when you have small macro/abbreviations
> >> including these place holders; e.g. in latex there exist a
> >> macro:
> >>
> >> \frac{<++>}{<++>}<++>
> >>
> >> So you are able to complete quickly the fraction.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, defining those 'macros' is pretty easy in vim
> >> with the 'imap' funtion; so writing in insert-mode some
> >> special shortcut, it expands to the wanted output with those
> >> place holders.
> >
> > I just found 'tempo'. I think that should work for this, but
> > I can't find anything like placeholders...
>
> Isn't that exactly what is meant by the "points of interest"?
Yes, thanks!
>
> ;; A template is defined as a list of items to be inserted in the
> ;; current buffer at point. Some of the items can be simple strings,
> ;; while other can control formatting or define special points of
> ;; interest in the inserted text.
>
> ;; If a template defines a "point of interest" that point is inserted
> ;; in a buffer-local list of "points of interest" that the user can
> ;; jump between with the commands `tempo-backward-mark' and
> ;; `tempo-forward-mark'. If the template definer provides a prompt for
> ;; the point, and the variable `tempo-interactive' is non-nil, the
> ;; user will be prompted for a string to be inserted in the buffer,
> ;; using the minibuffer.
Sorry, was kind of confused.
Greetings, Fabian