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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Write it like this:

(defun hw ()
(interactive) ; makes it a command.
(insert "Hello World"))

Call it like this:

M-x hw RET


--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.

[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

--
- mgs.

if all you young men / were fish in the water
how many young girls / would undress and dive after

[C K Kashyap]

Thank you Mark,

I think, this will do.

Regards,

Kashyap