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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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> It would be nice sometimes to be able to wrap multiple lines
> istruction1();
> istruction2();

> in something like

> try {
>     istruction1();
>     istruction2();
> } except ...

Don't know about yasnippet, but with skeletons, you'd do:

(define-skeleton my-try-except
  "Insert a try..except template."
  nil
  \n "try {" > \n _ \n "} except ..." > \n)

And then you just select the lines you want to wrap and
do M-x my-try-except RET.
You'll probably also want to make this command more easily accessible,
e.g. by adding it to your abbrevs or some key binding.


        Stefan