Aloha Nicolas, Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> Hello, > > Takaaki Ishikawa <tak...@ieee.org> writes: > >> I also support the idea of keeping "<s" as it was. >> Please give importance to the backward compatibility in this case. > > I explained why I thought it could be removed. I also suggested > solutions to get an equivalent feature without implementing it in Org. > > What is wrong with Abbrev mode, skeletons, tempo.el, expand.el, all > bundled with Emacs, or YASnippet, in the Emacs ecosystem? It sounds like > NIH. Or, to put it differently: why in the world would Org implement its > own template system? The "why in the world" question is likely one that can be answered by the author of the Org template system. > The only argument so far is "<" cannot be expanded since it not word > constituent. Seriously. "<" has no meaning anyway. You can use "@", > which is word constituent and just as meaningless. So, you can define, > e.g., a skeleton, that will expand "@s" to "#+begin_src\n#+end_src". > > We can even document how to do it in the manual. For me, the issue isn't about how the template system is implemented, it is about backwards compatibility of (org-try-structure-completion). All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
