Re: Add another "nndraft" type ?

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

>>>>>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:33:22 +0200, Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> said:
>
>> Or keep each template in a file and use C-x i.
>
> For a while I had a couple of nndraft articles that held initial
> contents of things like scheduled outage messages and the like.  I
> would B C them and then D E the copy.  That got old the first time I
> accidentally ran D E on the main copy, though :-)

Yeah, but with the C-x i solution you can prevent accidental deletes
by making the directory and files read-only ;-)

>> Or use skeleton to generate them.
>
> Not sure what you mean by skeleton, but eventually I discovered
> tempo.el which is how I handle these things now.

There are functions define-skeleton and skeleton-insert.  This is
similar to tempo, so I think you don't need to switch.

Kai