From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to insert this? Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:10:32 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <877ik7sav8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195960283 6776 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2007 03:11:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:11:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 04:11:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iw7u4-0006RD-KU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:11:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iw7tp-0002gu-Du for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iw7tX-0002dc-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:10:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iw7tV-0002bh-64 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iw7tU-0002bW-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iw7tU-000828-Jr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Iw7tK-0004d3-Kz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:10:42 +0000 Original-Received: from khp059140005246.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp ([59.140.5.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:10:42 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by khp059140005246.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:10:42 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: khp059140005246.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RhETBx5mbtS+M3lc/3lDJUFHDEM= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49487 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Here are two ways to do what you request: > > 1. Put the text in a file `cut', then use `C-x i cut' (command > `insert-file'). > > 2. Put the text in a string, then use a command that calls `insert' to > insert it: > > (defcustom cut-string > "--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---\n" > "My cut string" :type 'string) > > (defun insert-cut-string () > "Insert `cut-string'." (interactive) (insert cut-string)) Alternatively, you can use abbrev-mode. I myself use "xcut" for expanding something similar. -- William http://williamxu.net9.org