From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57838 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Add another "nndraft" type ? Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:13:24 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <86llj3g8aj.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: <86n03kha99.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086329689 12832 80.91.224.253 (4 Jun 2004 06:14:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 06:14:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6379@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jun 04 08:14:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BW7yW-0002r6-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:14:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BW7xi-0003QI-00; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 01:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BW7xK-0003QC-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 01:13:30 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BW7xI-0007mK-FM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 01:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00F23A021D for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:13:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BW7xH-0001Bz-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:13:27 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1086329606 1350 139.4.37.213 (4 Jun 2004 06:13:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 06:13:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oHjlTG+yWOJM9B5AzE0baWzh3JI= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57838 David S Goldberg writes: >>>>>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:33:22 +0200, Kai Grossjohann 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