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I use org-mode to maintain my personal site. Whenever I create a new .org file in my website, I find myself retyping the following
#+TITLE:
#+OPTIONS: html-postamble:nil whn:nil toc:nil nav:nil
#+HTML_HEAD:
#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA:
Is it possible to bind this template to a keystroke?
You can use the templating system of org-mode. If you insert the following lines at the end of your init.el file:
(add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist
'("P" "#+TITLE:\n#+OPTIONS: html-postamble:nil whn:nil toc:nil nav:nil\n#+HTML_HEAD:\n#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA:\n\n? "))
After you restart emacs or source your init.el file, you only have to type <P at the beginning of your org-mode file, then the <TAB> key and this will automatically integrate the desired code.
See http://orgmode.org/manual/Easy-templates.html for the documentation of the template mechanism.
tempo-define-template is the way to go.
– 147pm
Dec 12 '19 at 5:50
You may want to check out this example wherein the author suggests this define-skeleton:
(define-skeleton org-skeleton
"In-buffer settings info for a emacs-org file."
"Title: "
"#+TITLE:" str " \n"
"#+AUTHOR: Your Name\n"
"#+email: your-email@server.com\n"
"#+INFOJS_OPT: \n"
"#+BABEL: :session *R* :cache yes :results output graphics :exports both :tangle yes \n"
"-----"
)
(global-set-key [C-S-f4] 'org-skeleton)
Customize to please. But like so many things in the Emacs world, I don't know if this is "best practice."
There is also autoinsert which will insert lines whenever you create a new file. Here's what I have in my init:
(use-package autoinsert
:ensure t
:init
;; Don't want to be prompted before insertion:
(setq auto-insert-query nil)
(setq auto-insert-directory (locate-user-emacs-file "templates"))
(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'auto-insert)
(auto-insert-mode 1)
:config
(define-auto-insert "\\.org?$" "default-org.org"))
Note the last line (define-auto-insert "\\.org?$" "default-org.org") So the file default-org.org (in my .emacs.d directory) contains my customized in-buffer settings, which will be automatically inserted at the top whenever I create a file with an org ending.
Unfortunately, I could not figure out how to plant variables and expanding things in this template, as is supposedly possible. (See this cry for help.)
