Re: yasnippet and friends: usefull ?

[Mike Mattie]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:34:46AM +0200, 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 ?
> 
> [not a flame, just curious]
> 
>       Xavier
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> 

I have overloaded my tab key to be sensitive to the overlays at
the point and to try various completion methods. I don't need
combos anymore, I simply type tab and it expands symbols,
corrects typos with flyspell, expands templates, moves to the
next template field, or indents a line according to the mode.

Yasnippet is very useful for me. I tried ELSE, but I found the
syntax to be difficult. I wrote a tool that translates from
XML template definitions to ELSE templates, but in the end I
ended up ditching it.

I do wish that yasnippet could handle template expansion within
template fields which ELSE implemented though.


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