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 Autotyping
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 Under certain circumstances you will find yourself typing similar things
 over and over again.  This is especially true of form letters and
 programming language constructs.  Project-specific header comments,
 flow-control constructs or magic numbers are essentially the same every
 time.  Emacs has various features for doing tedious and repetitive
 typing chores for you in addition to the Abbrev features (
 (emacs)Abbrevs).
 
    One solution is using skeletons, flexible rules that say what to
 insert, and how to do it.  Various programming language modes offer some
 ready-to-use skeletons, and you can adapt them to suit your needs or
 taste, or define new ones.
 
    Another feature is automatic insertion of what you want into empty
 files, depending on the file-name or the mode as appropriate.  You can
 have a file or a skeleton inserted, or you can call a function.  Then
 there is the possibility to have Un*x interpreter scripts automatically
 take on a magic number and be executable as soon as they are saved.  Or
 you can have a copyright notice’s year updated, if necessary, every time
 you save a file.  Similarly for time stamps in the file.
 
    URLs can be inserted based on a word at point.  Flexible templates
 can be defined for inserting and navigating between text more generally.
 A sort of meta-expansion facility can be used to try a set of
 alternative completions and expansions of text at point.
 
    Copyright © 1994–1995, 1999, 2001–2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
      Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
      Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
      being “A GNU Manual”, and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
      below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
      “GNU Free Documentation License”.
 
      (a) The FSF’s Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and
      modify this GNU manual.”

 
· Using Skeletons        How to insert a skeleton into your text.
· Wrapping Skeletons     Putting existing text within a skeleton.
· Skeletons as Abbrevs   An alternative for issuing skeleton commands.
· Skeleton Language      Making skeleton commands insert what you want.
· Inserting Pairs        Typing one character and getting another
                              after point.
· Autoinserting          Filling up empty files as soon as you visit them.
· Copyrights             Inserting and updating copyrights.
· Executables            Turning interpreter scripts into executables.
· Timestamps             Updating dates and times in modified files.
· QuickURL               Inserting URLs based on text at point.
· Tempo                  Flexible template insertion.
· Hippie Expand          Expansion of text trying various methods.
 
· GNU Free Documentation License The license for this documentation.
· Concept Index
· Command Index
· Variable Index

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