Re: How do I set up a template?

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:43:20 +0100 (CET), Michele Dondi <blazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>For some reason, it doesn't work, in the sense that the template is not 
>inserted. But I blindly concocted up the following mixing your code with 
>Mark Olesen's:

I believe that it didn't work because in the example I gave, the name
of the template file used a .tpl extension, whereas you assumed files
with no extensions.  So it should work if you change

  variable file = expand_filename ("~/.jed/templates/$mode.tpl"$);

to:

  variable file = expand_filename ("~/.jed/templates/$mode"$);

I assume that you are using slang-2.  If using slang-1, then you will
have to modify the above to:

  variable file = expand_filename ("~/.jed/templates/" + mode);

Also if you use slang-2, then you can use the variation

  variable file = "$HOME/.jed/templates/$mode"$;
  
[...]
>This DOES work as intended. I have one final doubt. Will it also work 
>under Windows? Or will the version with expand_filename() instead of the 
>sprintf() statement? Isn't there a special function, say 
>jed_personal_dir() which will return the properly expanded path of (in 
>this case) ~.jed and whatever it will be under Windows?

   define jed_personal_dir ()
   {
      return Jed_Home_Directory;
   }

Jed_Home_Directory

 SYNOPSIS
  User's jed home directory

 DESCRIPTION
  The value of this variable specifies the user's so-called home directory
  where personal jed-related files are assumed to be found.  Normally, this
  corresponds to the user's home directory unless the user has specified
  an alternate directory via the `JED_HOME' environment variable.

--John

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