Re: Add another "nndraft" type ?

[David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>]

>>>>> 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.

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Dave Goldberg
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