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When defining code templates there's a restriction that an abbrievation can only be used 1 time. But in many text editors it is possible to define many templates for 1 abbrievation so that when an abbrievation is entered and there are more than 1 template defined for it, the user is presented with a list of options to choose. For example, in html we could define entries for abbrivation "input" where options would be: <input type="text"... <input type="button"... <input type="checkbox"... etc. This is a trivial example, but this technique has more advanced applications.