Re: Fire defun by typing keyword

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 10/29/13 8:38 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Is it possible to fire off a defun by typing a specific
> keyword? Sort of like the way abbrev works?
>
> For example, I have a defun like this
>
> (defun date ()
>    (interactive)
>    (insert-shell-command "my_date") )
>
> where "my_date" is a script to format output from
> /bin/date.
>
> Now, my idea is to hook it to a keyword, say "thedate".
>
> Again, it would work just as abbrev, only instead of a
> table lookup and replace, it would trigger a defun.

I'd start with `C-h f abbrev-expand-functions'

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA