Re: Skeleton & Abbrev

[tennis_smith@yahoo.com (Tennis Smith)]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann wrote in message news:<84el80pxx6.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
> tennis_smith@yahoo.com (Tennis Smith) writes:
> 
> > How do I make "PROC_NAME" the contents of a var I pass at invocation time?
> 
> I'm not sure that define-skeleton is the right way to do that.
> 
> Do you want the user to type in the name of the procedure?
> Investigate "interactors" in the skeleton documentation.
> 
> If you really want to call the skeleton programmatically and pass
> args to it, I suggest that you instead write a function which invokes
> skeleton-insert.  That function can then receive arguments.

I got it. :)  Here's all that's needed for a *simple* var to be passed:

(define-skeleton tcl-proc
  "A simple tcl proc skeleton"
  "Enter new proc name: "
  \n
  "#\n#\n#\n"
  "proc  " str " {  } {"
  \n
  _
  \n
  "} # end " str
)