first real attempt at some emacs hackery (related to beamer)

I create my presentations in beamer (uses latex) and use emacs as my editor.

I found myself typing,

\frame{
\frametitle{}
\begin{itemize}
  \item
\end{itemize}

And then either going to the title or one space past the item.

I quickly whipped this up, stuck it in my .emacs and was on my way.

;;a function for helping with beamer
(defun make-new-frame ()
 (interactive)
 (insert "
\\frame{
 \\frametitle{}
 \\begin{itemize}
   \\item
 \\end{itemize}
}
")
 (search-backward "\\item")
 (forward-char 6))

Alt-x make-new-frame [enter] and I start converting thoughts to bits.