From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-insert-alist Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:56:52 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40F573E4.4020400@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089828266 24923 80.91.224.253 (14 Jul 2004 18:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 14 20:04:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bko0r-0000yk-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:57:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bko3H-0008Rs-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:00:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de LfPgS9GNr8JWjRJB4b4xDA4c82LnR87oNN2UzR7EmsfaUhL4Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124300 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19635 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19635 DrMemory wrote: > I am having some trouble with auto-insertion. > > According to the documentation, the "Action" can be a filename, in > which case its contents are to be inserted. However, when I try this, > I get no auto-insertion when I visit a new file: > > (setq auto-insert-alist > (append '(((".*ltr.*\\.tex$" . "Letter") . "~/leg/ltr.tex")) > auto-insert-alist)) > > I changed it to: > > (setq auto-insert-alist > (append '(((".*ltr.*\\.tex$" . "Letter") . > (insert-file-contents "~/leg/ltr.tex"))) > auto-insert-alist)) > > And now I am prompted for autoinsertion, but the result is just to > have the string "~/leg/ltr.tex" inserted in the new file. > > I hope someone can tell me what I am doing wrong... Maybe the ~ needs to be explicitly expanded; does this work: (setq auto-insert-alist (cons `((".*ltr.*\\.tex$" . "Letter") . ,(expand-file-name "~/leg/ltr.tex")) auto-insert-alist)) -- Kevin Rodgers