Re: "Snippet" database

[Richard Riley]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> In my various guises I find myself sending out the same rote email
> answer to many people.  "Thanks for the patch; applied" and stuff.  It
> would be nice if one could just mark the region, ask Emacs to pull it
> into a database of snippets, and then have a command that would insert
> them again.
>
> Surely something like this already exists in Emacs, but I just can't
> seem to find it.  Probably looking for the wrong thing...

Why not just use abbrev and define some nicer hotkeys? (FWIW, I never
got yasnippet working with org etc but never really tried that hard
either tbh).