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From: Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us>
To: C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help with creating shortcuts
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:14:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120624221419.GA3234@mark-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdT1grAjpsjyXUXanNuR3H-8MAQJTHouUx+eno=dc0U2BYgAA@mail.gmail.com>

Adding to the previous answer, you might then be interested in the
YASnippet extension[1].

[1] https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet#readme

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 01:27:28PM +0530, C K Kashyap wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've been defining functions to create shortcuts
> 
> (defun (hw) (progn
>        (delete-fun) ; This is another function that deletes the actual
> function name from the buffer
>        (insert "Hello World"))
> 
> I invoke it as follows - (hw)C-X-e, this removes (hw) and replaces it with
> Hello World.
> 
> the problem is that I have to type parenthesis. I explored abbreviations
> but they cannot seem to be parameterized. Can someone please suggest an
> alternative?
> 
> Regards,
> Kashyap

-- 
- mgs.

if all you young men / were fish in the water 
how many young girls / would undress and dive after



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-24 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-24  7:57 Need help with creating shortcuts C K Kashyap
2012-06-24 22:14 ` Mark Skilbeck [this message]
2012-06-25  8:31   ` C K Kashyap
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2012-06-24 13:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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