On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Kai [utf-8] GroĆ~_johann wrote:

> For inserting templates, you may wish to investigate skeleton.el.

There is also tempo.el which may prove equally useful.
I don't have experience with either.  I would be curious
to hear thoughts, comparision, contrast from an expert in both
modes before deciding in which one to invest learning time.

Also,

http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-20.7/html_chapter/emacs_37.html

had this to say:

`skeleton.el', implementing a concise language for writing statement skeletons
'tempo.el', providing support for easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions

-Eric