On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes:
On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
Why aren't the %() expressions simply evaluated in the original
buffer
(if available)? That would solve these issues in a general way. It
seems
to me that there is no advantage to evaluating the expressions in
the
temporary capture buffer, but I'm not familiar with the code so I
might
be missing something. Is there a reason for that?
The sexp can be used to insert stuff into the template, so I think it
is correct to evaluate it in the template buffer.
I don't understand this argument. Of course the _result_ of the
evaluation is inserted into the template, but why is it useful to
evaluate the expression itself in the context of the template
buffer? Is
it likely that one would be interested in some information only
available in the template buffer? To me it seems that the much more
likely case is the one of Rainer -- i.e. the need to access variable
bindings from the original buffer (buffer name, mode, other local
variables etc.).
Such a function is allowed to do anything. It might search around
in the template, change things, whatever. So I don't think it
should be evaluated in a different buffer.
- Carsten
Štěpán
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