[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Monday 25 June 2007 15:43 in comp.emacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Eclipse has something that generates "import" statements with > a few keystrokes, and for me that's almost in the "killer app > [feature]" class. This is a sign of a weak programming language, in my eyes: If you need keystroke macros to enter boilerplate, you REALLY need a language that allows you to package commonly-used idioms into macros. (See Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, and, indeed, even Dylan. Python and Ruby almost solve the same problem by providing a richer set of primitives, but they aren't extensible.) > (Why do I strongly suspect that with the > right plug-ins emacs can do this too? :-) That would send > me searching for the Web site where vim macros are collected.) > Inserting literal text in Emacs using keystroke macros is trivial. Inserting more changeable boilerplate is a job for Emacs Lisp. -- My address happens to be com (dot) gmail (at) usenet (plus) chbarts, wardsback and translated. It's in my header if you need a spoiler. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
