How to programmatically include yasnippet snippets in a snippet - emacs

I'm looking for a way to write a snippet that would let me include another snippet. Here is an example of a snippet for a python function:
def test(args):
${1:code here}
$(insert-snippet "not_implemented_exception")
In the example, I would like to first write some contents to the python function in field #1, then hit TAB. Hitting TAB should take me to the lisp bit, where I may choose to expand the snippet with the name "not_implemented_exception".
I tried reading the source code but am very new to lisp, so I found nothing of use.

I think you could just make the text "not_implemented_exception" the last tabstop, so you can press TAB one more time to expand it.
def test(args):
${1:code here}
not_implemented_exception$0
In case you don't want to put the snippet at the end, you can enable nested snippet by
(setq yas-triggers-in-field t)

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Getting reftex recomendations for labels when creating new sections

In TeX-latex-mode under Emacs (26.1) using the reftex minor mode,
When pressing C-c (, the command reftex-label (found in reftex-mode-map, from reftex-ref.el) gives pretty good suggestions of label according to context for sections (with the default value of reftex-insert-label-flags).
When pressing C-c C-s, the command LaTeX-section (found in LaTeX-mode-map, defined in latex.el) offers to enter a label for the section, with no suggestion (other than a prefix based on the level of the section, which is useful but much less than the one based on the title section offered by reftex-label).
How can one configure LaTeX-section to make the same suggestions as reftex-label for sections?
The hook LaTeX-section-hook along with the variable LaTeX-section-label would seem the right candidate for that purpose, but the documentation states that
Some LaTeX packages (such as fancyref) look at the prefix to
generate some text around cross-references automatically. When using
those packages, you should not change this variable.
for one, I assume that reftex is one of such packages, and second, I was expecting to be able to give a function inside a hook, not a list of prefixes, I wonder if I misunderstood what a hook is?
I think that one would "just" need to get LaTeX-section to abstain from offering a label and to call the function reftex-label immediately after each LaTeX-section call, but if it is not LaTeX-section-hook, I do not know which one it could be?
Before starting programming something which could involve stuff as complicated as refactoring both latex.el and reftex-ref.el, I thought I would ask in case I was missing an easier solution!!!

how to freely format comments in cc-mode

I'm quite new to cc-mode and I'd like to configure it to allow me to freely format and use tabs in multiline comments. This is important to me because I want to use cog.py in my source file and need to be able to format the python source in the comment correctly. I'd be ok with comments not beeing autoindented at all, however I'd like to keep auto indenting the rest of the source code.
Example:
...
/*
[[[cog
import cog
for x in ['a','b','c']:
>cog.outl(x)
]]]
*/
...
In the line marked with > I'd like to press TAB to indent the line. cc-mode simply does nothing at all if i do so. I could use spaces there (which is inconvenient) but every (semi-)automatic re-indentation of this block would cause the spaces to vanish and therefore the python code to be incorrectly indented (which is what happens if i happen to press tab somewhere on this line after indenting it with spaces).
I tried to start emacs without my .init to be sure this is default behavior and not modified by my configuration so far. I've done google searches and read the documentation of the cc-mode variables / functions I stumbled upon (cc-mode online docs) while searching for a solution (i.e. c-indent-comments-syntactically-p, c-indent-command, c-tab-always-indent,...) but none of these seemed to solve my question.
EDIT1:
Thanks to abo-abo's idea of a "multi-major-mode" setup i've stumbled upon mmm-mode and have set up automatic switching to python mode for a cog section, which fixes most of my problems.
The only remaining problem is reindenting the whole file or a region containing a cog section. Can I somehow tell cc-mode to not change anything in comments while reindenting the file? mmm-mode + that would be a perfect solution for me.
You can use M-i to force a tab indent on the lines that you want, so you can use it to indent your comments.
You can also change your comments to use // instead. Just select your python code snippet, and do M-x comment-region:
// def foo(x):
// print 'hi'
Then the autoindent won't mess up your indentation.

Eclipse - custom quick fix - Add some text before and after selection

I could use a dummy guide or directions how to add a custom quick fix or if it is even possible.
Let's say I select a text inside code - "foo foo". Now I want to add something before that text and something after. The content before and after remains the same across many files and it has to be done manually.
Is there a way I could write my own quick fix in eclipse, which would add this text automatically.
Ctrl + 1 -> "Add ... before and ... after" -> And get the desired output?
This seems somewhat useful if not the correct thing, but I can't exactly read out how to accomplish this: FAQ How do I implement Quick Fixes for my own language?
Any easier explanations and guides are appreciated. Or what other ways would I have to accomplish this desired behavior without typing/copying repetitive things
Edit: Found this little macro thing which is one way to solve my problem. start with cut, write, paste and end macro. But I'm not sure if this is the best way. Practically Macro
I suggest this solution that allow you to get the result using Eclipse search.
CTRL+H to do a search and choose Files Search
Fill Containing text with "foo foo". Tweak other parameters to get the files you want
Check Regular expression
Click on Replace
Fill With: <prefix>$0<suffix>. For example if you want to substitute "foo foo" with "this is a foo foo example" write this is $0 example
Check Regular expression (if unchecked).
Done. I think that this solution is quite flexible (as long as you are familiar with regexp to get desidered strings) and easy to apply.

Shortcut for "code block" macro in Confluence editor

We use confluence for documentaion but i find very time consuming to select the code macro; it's a 5 step process. Even typing the macro by hand is not efficient.
In the Stack Overflow editor all we have to do is select the text and press a button or hit ctrlK, and the text is formatted as code.
Is there a way to do this in Confluence?
even typing by hand is also not efficient
I use the code macro extensively and always use the autocomplete feature by typing { and choosing 'Code Macro' from the list (It's enough to type co for the code macro).
This is a very efficient.
Of course a keyboard shortcut would be faster, but there is no shortcut for the code macro. (AFAIK there is no keyboard shortcut for a specific macro at all)
I use Ctrl-Shift-D then wrap the text in {code}.
This also fixes the problem with formatting being stripped from pasted text.
In Confluence 5.x if you edit a page, you can type {cod<enter} and it puts a Code Block box on the page, but when code is pasted into this box it can strip out end of line characters.
Open the Insert Markup window using Ctrl-Shift-D
Paste in your code as plain text This way the formatting is not stripped out.
Add {code} tags.
You can also type three back ticks ``` to create a code block as you would in vanilla Markdown. This creates an empty code block very quickly. I never have with problems with formatting when pasting code in this way.
The one irritating feature of this method is that you can't specify the language as you do in Markdown, you have to select the language from a list.

Problem writing a snippet containing Emacs Lisp code

I've been trying to make use of a cool feature of YASnippet: write snippets containing embedded Emacs Lisp code. There is a snippet for rst-mode that surrounds the entered text with "=" that is as long as the text such as in
====
Text
====
Based on this snippet, I decided to slightly modify it (with Elisp) so that it comments out these three lines depending on the major mode you are in (I thought that such a snippet would be useful to organize the source code). So I wrote this:
${1:`(insert comment-start)`} ${2:$(make-string (string-width text) ?\-)}
$1 ${2:Text}
$1 ${2:$(make-string (string-width text) ?\-)}
$0
This code works relatively well except for one problem: the indentation of these three lines gets mixed up, depending on the major mode I'm in (e.g., in emacs-lisp-mode, the second and the third lines move more to the right than the first line).
I think the source of the problem might have something to do with what comes after the string ${1: on the first line. If I add a character, I have no problem (i.e., all three lines are correctly aligned at the end of the snippet expansion). If I add a single space after this string, the misalignment problem still continues though.
So my question is: do you know of any way of rewriting this snippet so that this misalignment does not arise? Do you know what's the source of this behaviour?
Cheers,
From Writing snippets:
yas/indent-line
The variable yas/indent-line controls the indenting. It is bound to 'auto by default, which causes your snippet to be indented according to the mode of the buffer it was inserted in.
Another variable yas/also-auto-indent-first-line, when non-nil does exactly that :-).
To use the hard-coded indentation in your snippet template, set this variable to fixed.
To control indentation on a per-snippet basis, see also the directive # expand-env: in Writing Snippets.
For backward compatibility with earlier versions of YASnippet, you can also place a $> in your snippet, an (indent-according-to-mode) will be executed there to indent the line. This only takes effect when yas/indent-line is set to something other than 'auto.
for (${int i = 0}; ${i < 10}; ${++i})
{$>
$0$>
}$>