Re: Questions concerning emacs

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Urban Gabor <gabaux@freemail.hu> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.5104.1051081422.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> Hi,
> 
> I have two questions concerning emacs and I could not find
> an answer.
> 
> 1. I use emacs most of the time to edit program codes in C,
> C++, perl, etc. I would like to have an intelligent template
> editing. For example I type    'for' then emacs should
> expand it to:
> ' for (  ;  ;  )
>   {
>   }'
> or like that. How can I do that (is it possible at all?) ?
> 
> 2. I find calendar/diary function very usefull. Is there any
> extensio, which can be used to schedule meetings and tasks?
>  For example 
> 'Apr 23 2003  13-14:30 Meeting. '
> Can emacs detect collisions in the diary entries?
> 
> Gabaux
> Linux is like a wigwam: no gates, no windows, and an apache
> inside!

Several things are available for your request #1.

1. Language specific modes 
2. abbrev-mode
3. skeletons

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