Question

How can I define a new variable that takes parameters that get substituted into the rendered value?

Specifically I want to define shortcuts for our leave calendar like this:

   * Set SICK{user} = %GREEN% %user% Sick %ENDCOLOR%

%SICK{DenisHowe}%

Would this be a (new) plugin?

Environment

-- DenisHowe - 21 Jul 2006

Answer

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Did you have a look on MacrosPlugin yet? Or you could UsingSnippets.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 21 Jul 2006

Thanks. Both very interesting but still too much typing (I'm very lazy). The whole point is to shorten the input (and capture the pattern in one place).

Rather than thinking of it as a variable definition, how about a regular-expression rewriting plugin, e.g.

%REPLACE{'SICK \w+', '%GREEN% $1 Sick %ENDCOLOR%'}%

-- DenisHowe - 21 Jul 2006

Hm, nice idea Denis, but isn't ParameterizedVariables what you're looking for?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 21 Jul 2006

You could use ParameterizedIncludes, such as %INCLUDE{ "Sick" name="DenisHowe" }%

But if you want less typing you'd need to write a Plugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Jul 2006