X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/ab5796a9f97180707734a81320e3eb81937281fe..937640a621a4ce2e5e56eaecca37a2a28a584318:/man/autotype.texi?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/man/autotype.texi b/man/autotype.texi index e7df280f52..16e88851c4 100644 --- a/man/autotype.texi +++ b/man/autotype.texi @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ define an abbreviation (@pxref{(emacs)Defining Abbrevs}) that will expand Say you want @samp{ifst} to be an abbreviation for the C language if statement. You will tell Emacs that @samp{ifst} expands to the empty string -and then calls the skeleton command. In Emacs-lisp you can say something like +and then calls the skeleton command. In Emacs Lisp you can say something like @code{(define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table "ifst" "" 'c-if)}. Or you can edit the output from @kbd{M-x list-abbrevs} to make it look like this: @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ copy of this variable. @item @code{v1}, @code{v2} Skeleton-local user variables. @item @code{'@var{expression}} -Evaluate following lisp expression for its side-effect, but prevent it from +Evaluate following Lisp expression for its side-effect, but prevent it from being interpreted as a skeleton element. @item @var{skeleton} Subskeletons are inserted recursively, not once, but as often as the user @@ -456,16 +456,19 @@ wrong version of the GNU General Public License (@pxref{(emacs)Copying}) is foun that is updated too. An interesting application for this function is to have it be called -automatically every time a file is saved. This is accomplished by putting -@code{(add-hook 'write-file-functions 'copyright-update)} into your @file{~/.emacs} -file (@pxref{(emacs)Init File}). +automatically every time a file is saved. This is accomplished by +putting @code{(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'copyright-update)} into +your @file{~/.emacs} file (@pxref{(emacs)Init File}). Alternative, +you can do @kbd{M-x customize-variable @key{RET} before-save-hook +@key{RET}}. @code{copyright-update} is conveniently listed as an +option in the customization buffer. @vindex copyright-query The variable @code{copyright-query} controls whether to update the copyright or whether to ask about it. When this is @code{nil} updating is only done with @kbd{M-x copyright-update}. When this is @code{function} you are queried whenever @code{copyright-update} is called as a function, -such as in the @code{write-file-functions} feature mentioned above. Otherwise +such as in the @code{before-save-hook} feature mentioned above. Otherwise you are always queried. @@ -522,11 +525,13 @@ The ``interpreter'' used is @code{executable-self-display} with argument @cindex timestamps @findex time-stamp -@vindex write-file-functions +@vindex before-save-hook The @code{time-stamp} command can be used to update automatically a template in a file with a new time stamp every time you save the file. -Customize the hook @code{write-file-functions} to add the function -@code{time-stamp} to arrange this. +Customize the hook @code{before-save-hook} to add the function +@code{time-stamp} to arrange this. It you use Custom to do this, +then @code{time-stamp} is conveniently listed as an option in the +customization buffer. @vindex time-stamp-active @vindex time-stamp-format @@ -605,9 +610,9 @@ formatting or define special points of interest in the inserted text. @kbd{M-x tempo-backward-mark} and @kbd{M-x tempo-forward-mark} can be used to jump between such points. -More flexible templates can be created by including lisp symbols, which +More flexible templates can be created by including Lisp symbols, which will be evaluated as variables, or lists, which will be evaluated -as lisp expressions. Automatic completion of specified tags to expanded +as Lisp expressions. Automatic completion of specified tags to expanded templates can be provided. @findex tempo-define-template