On 2007-01-17, Kai Großjohann said:
> For inserting templates, you may wish to investigate skeleton.el.
> It comes with Emacs.  One needs to twist one's mind somewhat to
> understand how to use it, but you can look at the twisting to be a
> chance to excercise your mind to keep it fit :-)

On 2007-01-18, Eric J Haywiser said:
> 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.

On 2007-01-18, Pete Phillips said:
> I can't let the discussion continue without mentioning my own favourite
> - dmacro.
>
> We have been using this to provide templates for project reports (in
> troff), as well as boilerplate for emails since 1992 (well, that's the
> earliest RCS date I can find). Easy to make the templates, and it can
> prompt you for variables, anmd insert timestamps etc. Great package. 
>
> See 
>
> 	http://linuxgazette.net/issue39/marsden.html
>
> For some comparisons of template type packages.
>
> I now use dmacro for templates I use in org mode.

To add to the interesting list, there is snippet.el which is
intensively used by emacs-rails. The nice thing about it is it
highlights the fields and uses TAB to go though all fields to make
changes.