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<p>I disagree that it looks better, I prefer one char. Unfortunately … is troublesome.</p>
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<p>Well, I don't feel like <code>_</code> really looks like a placeholder in the context of programming.  Maybe a space would fit better for only one ASCII character?</p>
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<p>I then chose _ because it's also less likely to mess up the tagmanager due to syntax errors introduced by the ellipsis.</p>
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<p>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:</p>
<pre><code>def [function_name]([arguments]):
    """[documentation]"""
    [body]
</code></pre>
<p>with <code>[]</code> representing the indicator range.  But that's a whole other story.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/codebrainz" class="user-mention">@codebrainz</a> <a href="https://github.com/elextr" class="user-mention">@elextr</a> opinions on that?</p>

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