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Re: abbrevs and cursor control
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: abbrevs and cursor control |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:02:34 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> (define-skeleton hp-mkeywords
> "Insert nifty keywords string into mail/news messages
> and closing characters to make it searchable in a blob"
> nil
> "Keywords: "_"\n"
> (format-time-string "X-Key-Date: %b %d %Y %w\n")
> "X-&&: ")
>
> I'd like to do something like that with the symplicity of an abbrev
> rather than calling command or hitting command keys.
I hope you mean ease of use rather than ease of definition. Actually,
you can marry skeletons and abbrevs: the define-abbrev function (and
its ilk) allows you to specify a hook. You could specify the empty
string as the expansion and the skeleton as the hook.
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