Adding items to snippets drawers
To add new items to an existing snippets drawer::
- Do one of the following choices:
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To start with this: Do this: An empty item that you can edit Right-click anywhere in an existing drawer, select Customize, and click
New | New Item.
Existing text pasted into a new item in an existing drawer Copy or cut text to the clipboard. In the Snippets view, right-click anywhere in an existing drawer and click Paste.
Existing text pasted into a new item in a new or existing drawer Select the text, right-click, click Add to Snippets, specify the name of the drawer in the Snippets view to which you want to add the item, and click OK.
Customize Palette window appears.
- Type a name for the new item, and, optionally, provide a description. The value that you type in the
Name field will appear next to the item's icon in the Snippets view.
- To include in the
Template Pattern field a variable that you have already defined, click
Insert Variable Placeholder. A variable placeholder is a marker that, when tagging is inserted into the active file, will be replaced by the value that is entered into the
Insert Template:Item_name dialog at insertion time. Clicking the
Insert Variable Placeholder button or typing Ctrl+Space activates a pop-up in the text area that prompts you to create a marker for the variable. For example, if you create two variables named uri and prefix, and create variable placeholders for both, the template pattern might look like this:
<%@ taglib uri="${uri}" prefix="${prefix}" %>
- Click OK.
The new item will be added to the list of items in the appropriate drawer.
Related concepts
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Editing with snippets - overview
Deleting or hiding snippet items or drawers