Re: "Snippet" database

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> In my various guises I find myself sending out the same rote email answer to
> many people.  "Thanks for the patch; applied" and stuff.  It would be nice
> if one could just mark the region, ask Emacs to pull it into a database of
> snippets, and then have a command that would insert them again.

> Surely something like this already exists in Emacs, but I just can't seem to
> find it.  Probably looking for the wrong thing...

I copy the region, then run yas/new-snippet (from yasnippet, bound to C-c y
n).  I have many e-mail templates now.

John