Template index is a pseudo-index since it does not store any data and does not create any files on your disk. At the same time it can have the same NLP settings as a plain or a real-time index. Template indexes can be used for few purposes:
- as templates to inherit plain/real-time indexes in Plain mode just to minify Manticore configuration file
- keywords generation with help of CALL KEYWORDS
- highlighting of an arbitrary string using CALL SNIPPETS