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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: add blocks to org-structure-template-alist
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:12:13 -0700
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Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> In master branch, the format has changed.
>
> With the new template mechanism, can we have rich templates like the
> one Charles quotes?
>
>   (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist '("r" "#+begin_src rec :data? :type \n#+end_src" ""))
>
> allowing cursor positioning, etc?
>
> If yes, what pointer can we add to ORG-NEWS?

I think more complicated templating has gone into org-tempo.el, which
can be loaded separately, and uses the tempo package. The docstring of
`tempo-define-template' shows what's possible.