Re: Inserting standard blocks of text.

[Oliver Lohmann]

Hello Mike,

Saturday, April 26, 2003, 5:49:37 PM, you wrote:

> Is there a way to have a block of text that can be pasted in a
> file at any time (something that will not be overwritten when
> you do a Ctrl-k etc...).  I would like to put a standard header in fron
> of all my functions when I'm programming.  It will always be the same.
> It would be nice to not have to open a file, copy the header,
> switch back to the file I'm working on, and then paste it in. 

What's about writing a skeleton combined with an abbrev?
Kind of this (c-style):

(define-skeleton my-comment
  "insert-skeleton for comments"
  >"/*****************************************************" \n
  >"* "(skeleton-read "function title: ") \n
  >"* " \n
  >"* " _ \n
  >"* " \n
  >"* " \n
  >"*****************************************************/"  \n)

  (define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table "cmnt" "" 'my-comment)


just put it in your .emacs file and switch to c-mode type
'cmnt' an it will expand. you could also define a keyboard
shortcut for your purpose. feel free to define it for other
abbrev-tables (m-x list-abbrevs).

i think this solution is more comfortable and flexible as the
insert-file.


-- 
Best regards,
 Oliver Lohmann
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