[libvirt] Emacs tip for easily adding Reviewed-by tags & friends

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 12:38 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 01:34:31PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:36:28AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > It is nice that git has the short-hand for adding Signed-off-by, but
> > > adding other tags during reviews is kind of tedious and long winded.
> > > eg "ACK" is much shorter than typing "Reviewed-by: ...blah blah blah.."
> > > 
> > > Good editors have a way to setup macros though, and so I thought I'd
> > > share the emacs approach to making life easy again...
> > > 
> > > In my $HOME/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs file I have this:
> > > 
> > > (define-abbrev-table 'global-abbrev-table
> > >   '(
> > >     ("8rev" "Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
> > >     ("8ack" "Acked-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
> > >     ("8test" "Tested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
> > >     ("8sob" "Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
> > >    ))
> > > 
> > > Now, if I type the "8rev" [1] and then hit space-bar or enter, emacs expands
> > > it to the full "Reviewed-by: ....blah blah blah..." line. This makes adding
> > > the full tags just as quick & easy as it was to type a traditional "ACK".
> > > 
> > > Anyone have an equivalent tip for Vim ?
> > 
> > I'm using the following plugin for Vim which I tuned just a tiny bit so that I
> > could write even less :P.
> > 
> > https://github.com/vim-scripts/git_patch_tags.vim
> 
> What does it mean when it says  "<Leader>" in that README. Is that a
> name referring to a magic key sequence, or literal text to type ?

the leader is a key used at the beginning of some commands. It's referred as
<Leader> in all vim docs since it can be changed by the user with mapleader command.
By default the leader is '\'

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Cedric