As described here, IntelliJ’s live templates let you easily insert predefined code fragments into your source code.
I have posted some of my most used templates below, a link to my complete list of template files on GitHub (as a reference for myself when I setup new IntelliJ environments) and the steps I took to add the IntelliJ settings file to GitHub.
For example, I set up a template such that I can type test, hit tab, and it will insert this JUnit code snippet for me:
@Test
public void $NAME$() {
$END$
}It is a JUnit test method, with the cursor initially placed after “public void”, ready for typing the test name. The cursor then jumps to between the {}s, ready to start writing the test.
IntelliJ templates are stored in a user.xml file at
~/Library/Preferences/<product name><version number>/templates
For example, for IntelliJ13, it is
~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea13/templates/user.xml
Some of my other templates are listed below, with the trigger in bold.
So that I can use these templates on any IntelliJ (e.g. work and home), I have checked my complete list in here at GitHub.
before
@Before
public void setup() {
$END$
}after
@After
public void tearDown() {
$END$
}nyi
fail("Not yet implemented");puv
public void $NAME$() {
$END$
}main
public static void main(String[] args){
$END$
}Steps I took to add the IntelliJ settings to GitHub
First, I setup a new repo in GitHub at https://github.com/sabram/IntelliJ
Then, I followed some instructions from this StackOverflow posting on How to convert existing non-empty directory into a Git working directory:
cd ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea13 git init git add templates/user.xml git commit -m 'initial version of IntelliJ user.xml' git remote add myIntelliJRepo https://github.com/sabram/IntelliJ.git
At this point, I got an error suggesting I needed to do a git pull first. But when I did a
git pull saIntelliJ
I got an error saying
You asked to pull from the remote 'saIntelliJ', but did not specify a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
So, I edited .git/config based on this posting, to include
[branch "master"] remote = saIntelliJ merge = refs/heads/master
Then I was able to do
git pull saIntelliJ git push -u saIntelliJ master
successfully, and can just use git pull and git push going forward, with no need to specify the repo name (saIntelliJ) each time.
| Reference: | Live Templates in IntelliJ from our JCG partner Shaun Abram at the Shaun Abram’s blog blog. |
Live Templates are extremely useful and productive!