cas_ Messages: 20 Registered: July 2008 Location: Poland
Promising Member
Yes, except that Ctrl+space might not be a good choice, while it's already used for autocompletion. Some IDEs simply use the Tab key for this purpose (Resharper for example).
It's great to have the possibility to quickly jump through remaining placeholders. For example, if you had a for loop template like this:
for( $init$; $cond$; $inc$ ) {
$body$
}
then the first placeholder ($init$) would be selected by default and ready to be replaced by something useful. Then, after pressing some special key (maybe the same as used for macro expansion), cursor would jump to the next placeholder ($cond$), highlighting it and preparing for replacement.