Need help with creating shortcuts

Need help with creating shortcuts

[C K Kashyap]

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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

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Re: Need help with creating shortcuts

[Mark Skilbeck]

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

Re: Need help with creating shortcuts

[C K Kashyap]

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Thank you Mark,

I think, this will do.

Regards,
Kashyap

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:

> 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
>

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Re: Need help with creating shortcuts

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

Write it like this:

    (defun hw ()
       (interactive) ; makes it a command.
       (insert "Hello World"))

Call it like this:

     M-x hw RET


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