thoughts

[nicferrier]

We talked on #emacs

• would be good to ask for variables in the order in which they are defined
• would be good to have variables that could have defaults, particularly lisp variable references
• would be good to be able to apply the template interactively but supplying a default template name

this last one needs some explanation:

(defun elisp-template-thing ()
  (call-interactively 'terrible-template-insert))

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'elisp-template-thing)

this is great but I'd always want to use the same template.

It would be ideal to say:

(defun elisp-template-thing ()
  (let ((terrible-template-name "elisp-template"))
     (call-interactively 'terrible-template-insert)))

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'elisp-template-thing)

and then the template would default to using "elisp-template".

These changes would make it very usable.

[yonkeltron]

I have pushed the fix to prompt the user for variables in order. I will consider the default idea in question, I do not know how I might want to support the default template stuff you also suggested.