RE: How do I set up a template?

[Michele Dondi <blazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Olesen, Mark wrote:

> 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(...)
[snip]

This is much appreciated. I hope someone will "give me a fish" re the hook 
for non-existent files. In the meantime I would certainly prefer a single 
keystroke, but unfortunately I cannot devise one which would be easy for 
me to use and not conflict with... anything else! So I renamed the 
function to insert_template and added a completion for it.

One improvement that sprang to mind is as follows: the current code (I can 
understand it!) loads a template based on a mode. But a given language 
mode may be selected according to one or more extentions. Is there a way 
to recover for which extention was it loaded? For example, I may be 
editing .pl or .pm files... And I definitely want a different template for 
modules.

OTOH, now that I think of it, .pl is a *common* extension for Perl 
programs but nowhere even near to a standard, and I may want the usual 
perl template for any file which perl mode is actually selected, whereas 
.pm is actually standard. Now I wonder if there's a way to define a 
"wrapper" mode so that what_mode() would return "perl_module" BUT when 
editing in that mode I would actually be in perl mode. A sort of *alias* 
in CS terms...

> > 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.

Yep, as far as I'm seeing, it seems I can understand well enough what is 
being done. Of course I miss the definitions of a bazillion predefined or 
library functions that would be useful to get... anything done. But in any 
case I found here one of the most supporting, helpful and resourceful 
communities around: again, thank you all for all the help.


Michele
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