Re: Fire defun by typing keyword

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Again, it would work just as abbrev, only instead of
>> a table lookup and replace, it would trigger a defun.
>
> An abbrev can have a "hook", which is indeed a
> function that gets called after inserting the
> expansion.  So, you can do the above with an abbrev
> like
>
>   ("mydate" "" date)

Yes, I can confirm that this works. Setup as just
another abbrev (so abbrev mode must be enabled). Also,
it is dynamic in the sense that `date' doesn't have to
be defined at the time the abbrev is setup; also, if
date is changed, this is immediately reflected the next
time you type "mydate". So it is the same old
super-dynamic dynamigth that you expect from (almost)
all Elisping.

But, apart from inserting the date, I don't know what to
do with this newfound input method. That's always the
case with my great ideas, I only find but a few use
cases for each...

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