So, after this mailing list made me aware of the super great snipped feature, I decided to get a bit into Geany hacking to expand the snipped featureset.
What my patch does is basically allow more than 1 cursor position and move to the next one using a hotkey. Little example:
for(i = 0; i < [cursor1]; i++) { [cursor2] } [cursor3]
After doing for<tab>, the cursor ends up at cursor1, now you insert your text (e.g. MAX_COUNT), and hit ctrl+tab and move to cursor2, doing your stuff.
That saves a lot of movement with the arrow keys! The snippet.conf syntax doesn't change, you're just going to add more %cursor%.
However, the current patch is far from intelligent and nice. It's a bit hackish (limited to 10 cursors, global struct in editor.c ...), and the next cursor movement is apparently broken once you hit tab normally between "jumps". To be investigated! Also, I changed the hotkey of "go to last used tab" to nothing, so that ctrl+tab is free for this (this is the best hotkey I can find for), feel free to discuss!
This being my first code contribution to Geany, I'd really like to get some feedback! Don't hit me if it's bad though ;)
PS: Geany is great :D