Question: place cursor at the end of template when exiting

[tbdcit]

I think this more likely a question about the tempo syntax, sorry if this not the right place to ask.

What I would like it s a template which does: \\( $1 \\)$0, where $1 gets filled with the current selection (if there is one) otherwise places the cursor at $1 then at the next jump exits the template and places the cursor at $0.

What I have tried is ( mk "\\( " r " \\)" q). This almost gives what I want but template exists immediately after insertion (I cannot jump to q).

[minad]

As far as I know this behavior is not supported.

[tbdcit]

That’s a shame as it is very useful feature, especially for writing latex.

Do you think it would be possible to implement such a behaviour?

[tbdcit]

A workaround is to use r with a prompt. My example above would become ( mk "\\( " (r "MATHS") " \\)" q).

It would be very nice if this could work without the prompt i.e. to implement a placeholder which behaves like r which does not exit. Where would be the correct place to request this feature?