Re: the v word but not a religious salvo

[Matt Lundin]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> One vim plugin I've seen in use called xpt looks and sounds very very
> useful.
>
> There is a (thankfully short) online demo, you may find it somewhat
> poorly done... I did.  However it does give a good hint as to the
> power of this type of approach to helping programmers along with
> inserting oft repeated things and even whole script outlines.
>
>   (vim xpt templates plugin)
>   http://vimeo.com/4449258
>
> I'm not plugging for vim... what I want to ask is if there is any kind
> of thing like this available for emacs.

I believe you're looking for yasnippet:

http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/

Best,
Matt