Hi Stephen, yasnippet allows you to insert modifiable yaml templates. You can define 'fields' that you want to modify, along with straight text that will be inserted verbatim.
In my case, I enter the string 'yaml', hit the tab key, and the template is inserted. The cursor starts in the title field ($1), and I tab through category ($2), excerpt ($3), tags ($4, $5), slug ($6), and finally ends in the body of the document ($0). I keep it simple, but you can use default values for fields, or define a list of options to pick from. In my case, I just enter the values by hand. You can also call elisp functions to enter computed values. I use the function `tws-today` to enter today's date. The definition for this, stored in a file, is pasted below. You can use options in the template to switch between different headers, or you could define different templates. For example, you could define a yamlblog template, a yamlmanuscript template, etc, with the defaults set to your various outputs. There's a tutorial here: https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/blob/master/README.mdown and a short video here: https://youtu.be/W-bRZlseNm0?si=wM-mq-HkO2wgS0or But making a 'quick start' post specifically for ESS users would be a good idea. I will add it to my list, but the list is growing faster than I'm making posts lately! - ty ``` # -*- mode: snippet; require-final-newline: nil -*- # name: yamlpost # key: yaml # expand-env: ((yas-indent-line 'fixed)) # binding: direct-keybinding # -- --- layout: post title: "$1" categories: - $2 excerpt: "$3" date: `(tws-today)` tags: - $4 - $5 slug: $6 bibliography: ../../plantarum.bib csl: ../../american-journal-of-botany.csl link-citations: true --- \`\`\`{R init, echo = FALSE} library(utils) library(graphics) library(grDevices) library(stats) \`\`\` $0 ``` -- plantarum.ca On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 10:35 AM, Stephen Bond wrote: > Tyler, > > Happy you are lending a hand. I alternate between notebook and plain > htmil output. this is my typical: > > --- > title: "Title" > author: "Author" > date: "2023-10-08" > output: > # html_document: > # df_print: kable > # mathjax: C:/emacs/MathJax.js > html_notebook: > df_print: kable > mathjax: C:/emacs/MathJax.js > editor_options: > chunk_output_type: inline > --- > > I am not familiar with yasnippet. Maybe that is the missing piece. > Cheers > Stephen > > On Tue, 2023-10-10 at 09:32 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> Like Manuel, I also do my Rmd editing in Emacs, with ESS and polymode >> to handle most things, and a yasnippet to insert my YAML section. >> This covers my needs, but I'm not a very sophisticated user of YAML. >> >> What support would you like to see? Perhaps there are features you >> aren't aware of, or if not, we might be able to come up with some >> workable solutions. Whether or not that's an ESS issue, an polymode >> issue, or a markdown-mode issue, remains to be seen. >> >> Best, >> >> Tyler >> >> > On Fri, Oct 6, 2023, 10:13 Stephen Bond via ESS-help >> > <ess-help@r-project.org> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Currently there is zero support for the meta/yaml section at the >> > > beginning, which makes it inconvenient to the point I am using >> > > Rstudio >> > > to output my Rmd files. >> > > >> >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2023, at 8:16 AM, Manuel Teodoro via ESS-help wrote: >> > >> > I am not part of ESS team but I'm wondering what kind of problems >> > you have >> > with Rmd files, maybe we can give you some advices. >> > >> > I do all my Rmd and Qmd files in Emacs without any problem. ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
