Thanks, Eric. You're not the first person to suggest that I look into
yasnippets, and it's on my to-do list. (Using Emacs is a little like being in
the Red Queen's race:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
;-)
-- Mike
----- Original Message ----
> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>
> To: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Hannon <jm_han...@yahoo.com>; Org-Mode List
<emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> Sent: Thu, July 7, 2011 1:30:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [O] Customizing "Easy Templates"?
>
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hey Mike,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Michael Hannon <jm_han...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> I can't figure out how to
> >> customize the text of these templates. Can anybody point me in the right
> >> direction?
> >>
> >
> > This should work:
> >
> > (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
> > '("S" "#+BEGIN_SRC ?\n\n#+END_SRC" "<src lang=\"?\">\n\n</src>"))
>
> Mike,
>
> if you intend to customise further than this, you might wish to consider
> using yasnippets [1] instead of these templates, although these
> templates are indeed quite useful! I use both but, for instance, for
> source blocks, I have the following snippet defined:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #name : #+begin_src language options ...#+end_src
> # --
> #+srcname: $1
> #+begin_src $2 $3
> $0
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> so that typing "src TAB" starts defining a source block with subsequent
> TABs allowing me to fill in the name, the language, the arguments and
> finally puts me into the actual code section.
>
> The nice thing about yasnippets is that you can have defaults for any of
> the fields. For instance, here is one I use for Java files (not org):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #contributor: dobbymoodge <j...@transloc-inc.com>
> #name : public? class ... { ... }
> # --
> // Copyright (c) 2011, Eric S Fraga, All rights reserved.
> package ${1:jacaranda.design};
>
> import jacaranda.base.Settings;
>
> ${2:public} class ${3:foo} ${4:extends jacaranda.base.EGO}
> {
> public static boolean debug = false;
> private static final int dl = 5;
> private static String version = "2011.03.02 20:04:40";
> static {
> Settings.output.printf (": <%s> $3\n", version);
> }
> ${5:public} $3 () {
> $0
> }
> } // end of $3 class
>
> // Local Variables:
> // time-stamp-line-limit: 1000
> // time-stamp-format: "%04y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M:%02S"
> // time-stamp-active: t
> // time-stamp-start: "version = \""
> // time-stamp-end: "\";"
> // End:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> for when I start a new class file.
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Yasnippet
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.586.g382e6)
>
