Emacs Snippets and Templates
Channel: Andrew Tropin
Date: 2022-08-11

Continue the topic of emacs completion, let's explore what abbrev, dabbrev, tempo, skeletons, yasnippets, tempel, skempo and all the friends are. Talk about snippets and how to integrate them in your workflow.

#emacs #rde 

0:00 Introduction
0:30 Abbreviations
3:20 Dynamic Abbreviations
7:30 Snippets
8:00 Plain-text vs S-exps
15:10 Pre and post expansion actions
21:30 Snippets sources
23:20 CAPF, abbrev integration
29:30 TempEL cons and pros
33:30 Where snippets applicable? 
36:20 Conclusion

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