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Kile gives you the ability to make your own tags. A tag is similar to a shortcut that launches some command or writes frequently-used text. For example, Joe Sixpack uses often the phrases I prefer \LaTeX\ to \TeX\ in my text and What would I do without Linux?. To create user-defined tags to write these sentences, he would access User->User Tags->Edit User Tags; this will present him a dialog where he can create his own user-defined tags.
He would probably give each tag a name that can clearly identify it. The name you give your tag is entered in the section marked Menu item, and the text of frequently-used command would be entered into the section labelled Value. Once the commands are entered, he can use them quickly using the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-1 for the first tag to enter I prefer \LaTeX\ to \TeX\ and Ctrl-Shift-2 to enter What would I do without Linux?.
There are some placeholders you can use in user-defined tags: they are %S, %M, and %C.
%S: will be replaced by the source file's name.
%M: this stands for marked text; the selected text is inserted in its place when using user-defined tags.
%C: this is where the cursor will be placed after using a user-defined tag.
To show you how this works let's say for example that we have a user-defined tag, which contains the value \bfseries{%M}%C, and I have a selection of text highlighted in my document that we want to turn into bold text. So, we highlight the phrase I love Friday, apply our user-defined tag by pressing Ctrl-Shift-1, and we get the text \bfseries{I love Friday}, with the cursor placed at the end of the text.
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