On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:00 AM Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> wrote:

> I am not sure I understand, at least with transient-region turned on.
> Typing <e will deactivate the region, so there is no effect.
>

You're correct.


> Or do you mean to actually put "<" into a keymap?
>

I actually do that in my personal config .. Maybe binding "<" in org keymap
is the simplest way.

I have this function in my config bound to "<":

(defun modi/org-template-maybe ()
  "Insert org-template if point is at the beginning of the line,
or if a region is selected.  Else call `self-insert-command'."
  (interactive)
  (let ((is-region? (use-region-p)))
    (if (or is-region?
            (and (not is-region?)
                 (looking-back "^[[:blank:]]*")))
        (hydra-org-template/body) ;Wrapper function for
`org-try-structure-completion'
      (self-insert-command 1))))
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Kaushal Modi