[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Snippets: Use ASCII ellipsis for the cursor placeholder (957b49b)

[Colomban Wendling]

> I disagree that it looks better, I prefer one char. Unfortunately … is troublesome.

Well, I don't feel like `_` really looks like a placeholder in the context of programming.  Maybe a space would fit better for only one ASCII character?

> I then chose _ because it's also less likely to mess up the tagmanager due to syntax errors introduced by the ellipsis.

It is indeed, though good parsers should handle it not too badly.  But that might be a valid point indeed.  I guess ideally the snippet could provide the placeholder, to expand like:
```
def [function_name]([arguments]):
    """[documentation]"""
    [body]
```
with `[]` representing the indicator range.  But that's a whole other story.

@codebrainz @elextr opinions on that?

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