Re: abbrevs and cursor control

[Kai Großjohann]

Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> (define-skeleton hp-mkeywords
>       "Insert nifty keywords string into mail/news messages
>          and closing characters to make it searchable in a blob"
>       nil
>       "Keywords: "_"\n" 
>       (format-time-string "X-Key-Date: %b %d %Y %w\n") 
>       "X-&&: ") 
>
> I'd like to do something like that with the symplicity of an abbrev
> rather than calling command or hitting command keys.

I hope you mean ease of use rather than ease of definition.  Actually,
you can marry skeletons and abbrevs: the define-abbrev function (and
its ilk) allows you to specify a hook.  You could specify the empty
string as the expansion and the skeleton as the hook.
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