# Customize Ellie's Initial Text

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/customize-ellies-initial-text/5249>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/customize-ellies-initial-text/5249 "2020-03-02T01:43:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ursi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/ursi/32/3166_2.png) [@ursi](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/ursi)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/customize-ellies-initial-text/5249/1 "2020-03-02T01:43:07Z")

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Ellie is amazing, but it has one little annoyance—new ellies always start with the Ellie boilerplate! If you’re someone that prefers things named/structured slightly differently (as I am) then it’s a pain to have to change that every time you make an Ellie. Today I had the realization that fixing this problem is actually quite easy! so I went ahead and did it.

Introducing… [Ellie Init](https://gist.github.com/ursi/41284acc2ddb7afba93315195267923e)!

With Ellie Init, you can make new ellies start with whatever text you like.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/customize-ellies-initial-text/5249/2 "2020-03-12T01:43:08Z")

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