RE: How do I set up a template?

["Olesen, Mark" <Mark.Olesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I would normally avoid that type of automatic operation and use an
> > explicit command instead.
> 
> I understand your approach, and your preference, but I'd really prefer
> the
> insertion to be automatic, based on the principle that it's much
> easier to
> have something and then delete or comment it than having to insert it
> manually. And basically ALL of my Perl (but not only!) programs begin
> in the same way.

Until you figure out how to add a hook when loading a non-existent file,
you can use this and either bind it to a keystroke or with
add_completion(...)


define add_template ()
{
    variable name;
    (name,) = what_mode();

    variable file = 
        sprintf("%s/.jed/templates/%s", getenv("HOME"), name);

    if (file_status(file) == 1)
    {
        bob();
        () = insert_file(file);
    }
    else
	vmessage("no template for mode '%s'", name);
    }
}


> Also, rather than specifying the template ad hoc with C-like strings,
> I would use an actual file: after all I'm a Perl programmer, not a
> S-Lang one...

Apart from always needing to explicitly drop any return variables,
programming in S-Lang shouldn't be very difficult for you to pick up ...
or at least enough to get things done.

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