Re: Slickedit features in Emacs?

[Henrik Jönsson]

Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message 
news:<wc3addgrtd8.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu>...
> henrik.jonsson@se.transport.bombardier.com (Henrik Jönsson) writes:
> 
> > My initial question was of course if the functions in Slickedit a full if 
> > template. Can this be done with
> > skeletons?
> 
> Yes, you just combine skeletons with abbrev.  I like to type "ifx " to
> expand my template in C mode:
> 
> (define-skeleton my-skeleton-c-if
>   "Insert a c if statement" nil
>   "if (" > _ ")" \n
>   "{" '(indent-for-tab-command) \n
>   \n
>   "}" '(indent-for-tab-command))
> (define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table "ifx" "" 'my-skeleton-c-if)
> 

Nice! Binding this to "ifx" works great. But I can't get it to bind to
"if(". Is it possible?

/henrik