Re: LaTeX templates (or just templates in general)

[Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net>]

Orri <orritomasson@gmail.com> wrote :

| I am rather new to emacs.
>
| I have used the editor TextMate on mac and it has a very nice feature I like
| and was wondering how I can acheive a similar thing in emacs.
>
| When I am in latex mode in textmate and write temp[tabkey], I can choose
| from a list of code segments to insert to the current file (or buffer).  I
| often use this to insert frequently used code segments (3-10 lines) to
| achieve tasks I frequently do. These segments are stored in a folder named
| ~/Library/Applications Support/LaTeX/Templates
>
| I know I can use [C-x i], But it takes so much time to write the correct
| path every single time.
| So I am looking for something like [C-x i] except it by default starts in
| specified directory (rather than the current directory). 
>
| I know I can of course, in every latex project directory specify a symbolic
| link (with a short name) to this directory, but I find it to be too much of
| dirty hack.
>
| Does anyone have any suggestions about how to acieve this?

Hi,

I have several elisp functions defined in my .emacs file to help me the
way you think: here is one to add a frame to a beamer document:

.....................
(defun addframe ()
  "Ouvre une frame dans beamer" 
 (interactive)
   (insert "\\begin{frame}
 \\frametitle{}
\\end{frame}")
  (backward-char 13)
  (indent-for-tab-command)
)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c f") 'addframe)
....................

You can write many of those to your needs...

-- 
Jean