Re: yasnippet and friends: usefull ?

[thierry . volpiatto]

There is a little bug in else-mode:

If you add else-mode to python-mode-hook, when creating a new .py file,
"{compilation_unit}" is inserted in the file.
That is not annoying for most files, just delete it and keep writing in
your python file.
But that's create an error when installing python program with a
setup.py:
,----
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/usr/local/bin/calendar-bin.py", line 31, in <module>
|     from calendar_tk.calendar_multiclass import *
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calendar_tk/__init__.py", line 1
|     {compilation_unit}
`----

__init__.py should be empty here.
 
thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> NOTE:
>>> Instead of yasnippet, you can use also else-mode:
>>>
>>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ElseMode
>>>
>>> It's very well documented.
>>>
>>> I prefer it than yasnippet.
>>
>> Just as an aside noticing it's not hosted on the wiki (it would be nice
>> if it was), Andy Stewart wrote a great utility suite for accessing
>> emacs wiki code : see 
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoInstall
>>
>> ,----
>> |    1. Find the Elisp file. Locate it on the web, either from a private 
>> site, or from a code repository such as the EmacsWiki ElispArea or gist.
>> |    2. Asynchronous parallel download the file.
>> |    3. Batch install files Some extension (such as Icicles) have many 
>> packages need install, and install those packages one by one is painful.
>> |    4. View differences with the old version. Sometimes, you’ll want to 
>> view the differences between the new and old versions before you update.
>> |    5. Save the Elisp file. You might keep your elisp files organized by 
>> categories, but this causes its own problems: if you download a new elisp 
>> file, you need to make sure you’re deleting the old one, a hassle if the 
>> file is located deep in a storage directory.
>> |    6. Install the Elisp file.
>> |    7. Keep the Elisp file updated.
>> `----
>>
>> It has saved me a lot of time - especially with the "update" feature.
>
> Yes it's nice, i use it also.
>
>> (also, the instructions for "else" talk about installing help files into
>> ~/info which is wrong for most of us).
>
> For me it's in ~/elisp/info (but it can be anywhere else), 
> you have just to write this line
>
> ,----
> | * ELSE: (else).      Emacs Language Sensitive Editor mode.
> `----
>
> in your dir file.
>
> and also in .emacs:
>
> (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/home/you/elisp/info")
>
>>>
>>> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>>>    On 2009-04-28 07:34 +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>>>>    > Hi,
>>>>    >
>>>>    > I was revamping my $TMP directory and found on old archive of
>>>>    > yasnippet. 
>>>>    >
>>>>    > Does anybody is really using it ? I mean do you find easy to TAB
>>>>    > everytime you are typing code ? How do you use it in real life ?
>>>>    > Don't you think abbrev-* is easier and less intrusive ?
>>>>
>>>>    I use a modified snippet.el that integrates into abbrev seamlessly. I
>>>>    like it better than yasnippet.
>>>>
>>>> Why ? Is it available somewhere ? How do you practically use it ?
>>>> Along my previous post, I decided to try yasnippet. It is nice
>>>> but you have to remember what is the "combo trigger" to use in
>>>> order to have it does something ;)
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>>    Xavier

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