Re: Trouble using snippet.el with abbrev tables

[Niels Giesen]

NOTE: This mail was sent outside the group for some reason, so I am
(re)posting it here, so that other people can benefit. By the way, Peter
replied that this solved the problem he had with snippets in javascript-mode.

Peter,

there were indeed some flaws in that code. Should've checked with emacs -Q.
Well, I have trimmed my .emacs down to the following bare minimum, which
really works for me (my emacs version is "GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu,
X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-11-06 on terranova, modified by
Ubuntu"):

;;this is where my snippet.el and javascript.el reside
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/nxml/related")

(autoload 'javascript-mode "javascript" nil t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js\\'" . javascript-mode))
(require 'snippet)

;; Apparently the abbrev-table *should* be bound, for
;; snippet-with-abbrev-table not to blurb: 

(define-abbrev-table 'javascript-mode-abbrev-table ())

;; Yup, here was a quote missing
(snippet-with-abbrev-table
 'javascript-mode-abbrev-table
 ("for" .  "for $${element} in $${sequence}:")
 ("im"  .  "import $$")
 ("if"  .  "if $${True}:")
 ("wh"  .  "while $${True}:"))

(add-hook 'javascript-mode-hook
         (lambda ()
           (abbrev-mode 1)
           ;; Here really should NOT be a quote:
           (setq local-abbrev-table javascript-mode-abbrev-table)))

Perhaps something in python-mode sets the correct abbrev-table already. By the
way, what strange dialect of JavaScript is that ;) ?

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> On Feb 5, 2008 11:21 AM, Niels Giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Peter Michaux" <petermichaux@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > I'm new to Emacs and having trouble getting snippet.el working.
>> >
>> > http://www.kazmier.com/computer/snippet.el
>>
>> (autoload 'javascript-mode "javascript" nil t)
>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js\\'" . javascript-mode))
>> (require 'snippet)
>>
>> (add-hook 'javascript-mode-hook
>>           (lambda ()
>>             (abbrev-mode 1)
>>             (unless (boundp 'javascript-mode-abbrev-table)
>>               (define-abbrev-table 'javascript-mode-abbrev-table ())
>>               (snippet-with-abbrev-table
>>                javascript-mode-abbrev-table
>>                ("for" .  "for $${element} in $${sequence}:")
>>                ("im"  .  "import $$")
>>                ("if"  .  "if $${True}:")
>>                ("wh"  .  "while $${True}:")))
>>             (setq local-abbrev-table javascript-mode-abbrev-table)))
>
> I tried the above. It threw errors at first because the last two
> instances of javascript-mode-abbrev-table seem to need quoting. When I
> quote those I still don't get the desired snippet behavior when I type
> "for" and then space. I tired many simpler combinations also that
> didn't involve the unless statement. No luck either. Does the above
> code really work for you?
>
> I can get snippets working with python mode.
>
> I have a python-snippets.el file with the following
>
> ; -------------------------------------------------
>  (snippet-with-abbrev-table 'python-mode-abbrev-table
>     ("for" .  "for $${element} in $${sequence}:")
>     ("im"  .  "import $$")
>     ("if"  .  "if $${True}:")
>     ("wh"  .  "while $${True}:")
>  )
>  (provide 'python-snippets)
> ; --------------------------------------------------
>
> and then in my .emacs file I have just the following because the
> python mode file defines the abbrev table
>
> ; -------------------------------------------------
> (add-hook 'python-mode-hook
>         (lambda ()
>           (abbrev-mode 1)
>           (require 'snippet)
>           (require 'python-snippets)
>         )
> )
> ; -------------------------------------------------
>
> Any ideas why the JavaScript version doesn't work?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

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