A Simple Template Library

For the needs of a project, I wrote a little template library some time ago. However, I never really liked it and didn't really finish it. On the good side, I made it flexible with customizable markers, so I was able to use {{ }} or something else as markup. On the bad side, I was using regular expressions and simple search to carve out things in markers to be expanded. Another annoyance is that Emacs already has so many templating and text processing libraries built-in, so I dislike the idea of using yet another one. I am already using org-capture for other purposes, and org-capture has templates. Could I possibly use those templates instead of an extra dependency? ...

January 2, 2026 ยท Arthur Miller