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chari's suggestion about ilisp is very helpful.  my query about
abbrevs goes slightly further in that it would require a file for
emacs' abbrev feature to insert function prototypes into a buffer when
you do an expand-abbrev.  does ilisp, or any other package, do this?

it had seemed to me that since there are fairly standard indentations
for many popular languages (elisp, cl, and c, for example), there is
no need for each person to create his own abbrev expansions.  i
thought, we can let the magic of the public domain solve the problem
of this duplication of effort.

good candidate languages for pd (or gnuware) abbrev files are cl/clos,
elisp, zsh, awk, perl, c, and c++.

here is an example abbrev using elisp as the target language.  the
text object "if" would expand to the following in your elisp mode
buffer when a key bound to expand-abbrev is pressed.

	(if %test
	    then-part
	  else-part)

the "%" is there to tell a wrapper function to relocate point to its
location so that you can delete the argument "test" and insert your
own.

i can't believe there are no cl hackers out there who have made such a
file!
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