Re: Something like read-file-into-string needed

[haws]

Thank you very much!
And just learned two nice tricks!

Leo escreveu:

> * Haws (2007-01-05 10:57 -0800) said:
>   ^^^^
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I've been trying out the snippet.el package which lets you insert
> > templates nicely.  But now I have a "big" template (like 100 lines)
> > that I don't want to put inline in my lisp function.  Instead, I'd
> > like to have it in a file, and read this file contents into a
> > string.  Once in a string, I could use the regular command,
> > snippet-insert, to insert my template.  I've found no way to do that
> > (only to insert the file into a buffer, which doesn't solve my
> > problem.)
> >
> > Any tips, ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Hugo
>
> (defun read-file-into-string (file)
>   (interactive "f")
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (insert-file-contents file)
>     (buffer-string)))
>
> --
> Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)