Re: Add another "nndraft" type ?

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

On  3 Jun 2004, David S. Goldberg wrote:

> > > > > > On  Thu,  03  Jun   2004  18:33:22  +0200,  Kai  Grossjohann
> > > > > > <kai@emptydomain.de> said:
> 
> > Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
> > > What I currently miss is a way to keep a copy of such message that
> > > would be the  base for other messages. I call  that template but I
> > > am not sure of the terminology.
> 
> > Perhaps you can "just" use abbrevs?  I think that's a low-tech
> > mechanism that's underused.
> 
> This can be painful if you have a lot of them, especially if some are
> similar and you mix up which you want.
> 
> > 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 :-)
> 
> > 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.

Any good example ? :)
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