[libvirt] Emacs tip for easily adding Reviewed-by tags & friends

[Erik Skultety]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:36:28AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> It is nice that git has the short-hand for adding Signed-off-by, but
> adding other tags during reviews is kind of tedious and long winded.
> eg "ACK" is much shorter than typing "Reviewed-by: ...blah blah blah.."
>
> Good editors have a way to setup macros though, and so I thought I'd
> share the emacs approach to making life easy again...
>
> In my $HOME/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs file I have this:
>
> (define-abbrev-table 'global-abbrev-table
>   '(
>     ("8rev" "Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
>     ("8ack" "Acked-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
>     ("8test" "Tested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
>     ("8sob" "Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>" nil 1)
>    ))
>
> Now, if I type the "8rev" [1] and then hit space-bar or enter, emacs expands
> it to the full "Reviewed-by: ....blah blah blah..." line. This makes adding
> the full tags just as quick & easy as it was to type a traditional "ACK".
>
> Anyone have an equivalent tip for Vim ?

I'm using the following plugin for Vim which I tuned just a tiny bit so that I
could write even less :P.

https://github.com/vim-scripts/git_patch_tags.vim

Erik