Re: Template substitution in Emacs?

[Pierre Lorenzon]

Hi,

I think srecode is exactly what you need. First look at the
info documentation and if you think that it is not enough just
have a look at the cedet project and mailing list. srecode is
part of cedet.

Regards
Pierre



From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
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,
> 
> -- 
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>