I have to admit that I don't have Padre running on my system but I think every professional editor needs a template system.

Just wanna propose an idea I had last time talking with Gabor:

I started to use yasnippet with emacs which is actually a port from the textmate template format, making snippets interchangeable between both editors. (textmate is the most hyped editor ATM and a role model in usability, but restricted to Mac OS).

So having a universal templateformat which is editor agnostic would be a bless, maybe allowing plugins to export to vi-templates (?) or to whatever editor else.

But exploring emacs already swallows all my energy, so maybe you want to pick up this idea as a suggestion?

hope this helps! 8)