Need help with creating shortcuts

[C K Kashyap]

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