newbie. skeleton question.

newbie. skeleton question.

[Pawel]

I defined simple skeleton:

(define-skeleton sexpr-example
  "Insert a silly example."
  ""
  > "Emacs version is: " emacs-version \n
  > "And time is: " (current-time-string))

(define-abbrev text-mode-abbrev-table "slly" 
   "silly text: " 'sexpr-example)

M-x sexpr-example : works for me.

while,
slly<SPC> does not. I am of course in buffer with text-mode.

Have You got idea, why?

Regards,
Pawel

Re: newbie. skeleton question.

[Anselm Helbig]

At Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:42:59 +0200,
Pawel wrote:
> 
> I defined simple skeleton:
> 
> (define-skeleton sexpr-example
>   "Insert a silly example."
>   ""
>   > "Emacs version is: " emacs-version \n
>   > "And time is: " (current-time-string))
> 
> (define-abbrev text-mode-abbrev-table "slly" 
>    "silly text: " 'sexpr-example)
> 
> M-x sexpr-example : works for me.
> 
> while,
> slly<SPC> does not. I am of course in buffer with text-mode.

Everything works as expected here (some GNU Emacs 22). Maybe you want
to turn on abbrev-mode? Otherwise, you'd have to type something like
this:

  sllyC-x a e

to get the skeleton expanded.

To activate abbrev-mode automatically for all buffers in text-mode,
add something like this to your .emacs:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 
          (lambda () (abbrev-mode 1)))

HTH, 

Anselm