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Template substitution in Emacs?
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Template substitution in Emacs? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:15:18 +0100 |
Hi there,
assume that I want to insert an (almost) constant string in Emacs
buffer. For instance, it may be a string of the form
"I am a {my-variable}."
However, I want the "{my-variable}" part to be, well, variable: I want
to substitute the current value of `my-variable' for this. So that
(setq my-variable "sentence")
(insert (template-substitute "I am a {my-variable}."))
would insert "I am a sentence." at point.
Of course, I could just use (format "I am a %s." my-variable), or even
define a function to do this. The drawback would be that if the
"template" is a user-customizable thing, then the user would have to
supply %s's and not meaningful names. What's more, the /order/ of the
substituted strings would be hardcoded in the "template".
Obviously, I could come up with such a function within 10-15 minutes or
so. But why reinvent the wheel? Is there anything like this in Emacs?
TIA,
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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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