I'm occasionally writing fanfiction-stories as plain-text files in emacs. It would be great if emacs could add a "header-section" in the beginning of these documents, for example:
Title: Author: Chapter: Series: Rating: Email:
Some fields - like Author and Email - could obviously be pre-filled...
How could something like this be accomplished in emacs?
What would be the best way of doing it? Would it be an idea to make a new major-mode - based on text-mode - called fanfic? Or perhaps a new minor-mode (called fanfic) to be used with the text-major-mode? A major/minor-mode could perhaps also set-up a few other things - like fly-spell-mode, auto-fill-mode and a suitable page-width...
For completeness, I'd like to know how such a standard header could be added for:
- All new files created with emacs (just curious...)
- All files of a certain type - eg. all .txt-files. (I guess it could be bound to the file-type (.txt) and/or the text-mode in emacs)
- Files created with a customized major/minor-mode
I've used emacs for a several years, but haven't really dived into customization or elisp much... (why mess with perfection? ;-)
