Text editor with predefined text snippets?
Text editor with predefined text snippets?
I do a lot of text editing for work and there are some phrases that I have to type frequently. What's the best way to quickly paste those phrases into a document using a shortcut or keyword? I mainly use Kwrite and Kate as i prefer plain text editors and need no formatting.
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If I understand you correctly, this is trivial in emacs:
(defun insert-text () (interactive) (insert "your text here")) (global-set-key your-keybind-here #'insert-text)You could make it a format string if it relies on data specific to some file or parameter. You could also make the keybind local to certain modes/files rather than a global keybind if you don't want to pollute your keybind space.
Emacs has several templating/snippet packages available, such as YASnippet.
There's a built in snippet system too, called skeletons, but most people seem to prefer the yasnippet interface.
Depending on the complexity, there's also
abbrev-mode: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html