[Ilugc] adding brackets in emacs

From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: Sat Nov 10 08:47:31 2007

Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

a common task is adding strings for i18n. Say I have a string -
mystring. I need to mark it like so:

_("mystring"). What I want to do is: select the string and press a
key so it will mark it. How is this done in emacs?

Tried escaping the ( with \ yet? \("sometext"\)

srs

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- [Ilugc] adding brackets in emacs
  - From: Kenneth Gonsalves

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