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Re: Template substitution in Emacs?
From: |
Robert Thorpe |
Subject: |
Re: Template substitution in Emacs? |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:31:30 +0000 |
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> 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.
As well as the things others have mentioned there's skeleton.el which is
part of Emacs.
BR,
Robert Thorpe