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how to control cursor placement in Emacs abbrev expansion?

In Emacs, is there a way control where the cursor/point gets placed in abbrev-mode expansion?

You know, something like this?

("orgfootnote" "[fn:: %?]" nil 0)
Solution

  • Abbrev do not offer this feature themselves, but they offer enough hooks to do it externally. E.g.

    (define-skeleton my-orgfootnote "Docstring." nil
  "fn::" _ "]")

    and then use an abbrev like

    ("orgfootnote" "" 'my-orgfootnote)