Question

I am trying to make a keyboard macro that prints a LaTeX macro and places the cursor inside it.
For example, I have the following placed in my .emacs file:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c v") "\\bibleverse{}()")

I would like to set the cursor inside the curly brackets

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c v") "\\bibleverse{<cursor position>}()")

How would I do this? Is there a macro for cursor position in emacs lisp?

Answer 1

(defun latex-bibleverse-snippet ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "\\bibleverse{}()")
  (backward-char 3))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c v") 'latex-bibleverse-snippet)

Maybe a quick and dirty answer. Or you can take a look at YASnippet, or Predictive mode(provide IntelliSense features for some major modes (currently: LaTeX, Texinfo, HTML). ) 🙂