Re: Need help with creating shortcuts

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

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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