Re: Need help with creating shortcuts

[Mark Skilbeck]

Adding to the previous answer, you might then be interested in the
YASnippet extension[1].

[1] https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet#readme

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 01:27:28PM +0530, C K Kashyap wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Regards,
> Kashyap

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