Have a look at ELSE (Emacs Language Sensitive Editor) mode at:

http://home.exetel.com.au/peterm/

Does exactly what you want and (IMO :-)) easier to use than skeleton mode
etc



On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Thierry Volpiatto <
thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alain Muls <alain.muls@telenet.be> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use emacs/ecb for programming in C/C++.
> >
> > I would like to have functions available that insert templates such as
> > the 'if .. then .. else' construct or a certain Qt function that I use
> > regularly. How can I do that, I am not used to program in lisp, so an
> > example should suffice.
> >
> > I would also like to connect these templates to key-shortcuts.
> >
> > Any help much appreciated
> >
> > Tx/Alain
> >
> >
> Hello, have a look at yasnippet.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
>
> Work fine with python out of the box, should work also with C.
>
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