Thanks for this, which indeed fixes my problem.

No mention of this in skeleton-insert's doc string!

--S

> On 19 Dec 2016, at 15:18, nitish chandra <nitishchandrachinta@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This appears to be the default behaviour of all skeletons. AFAIU a newline is inserted after the insertion of the skeleton. To override this behaviour, set skeleton-end-newline to nil.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nitish
> 
> On 19 December 2016 at 17:35, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org <mailto:simon@pushface.org>> wrote:
> From emacs -Q, in the scratch buffer,
> 
> M-x html-mode RET
> 
> enter "foo."
> 
> highlight "foo", point before "."
> 
> M-x html-href-anchor RET
> sample RET
> 
> buffer contains
> 
> <a href="sample">foo</a>
> .
> 
> where it should contain
> 
> <a href="sample">foo</a>.
> 
> I believe this is down to the same problem as reported in PR16634.
> 
> In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version 10.9.5 (Build 13F1911))
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