GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 754342
File templates for a particular project
Last modified: 2018-01-11 09:52:16 UTC
It would be cool if i could somehow add templates for new files in a project. For instance, i could create a template for header (.h) files that come with a pre-created licence boilerplate comment matching that particular project. Any new file created by builder would then start with this content rather than empty.
fwiw I feel snipets like "gpl" or "gobject" does the job pretty well and in a generic way, but maybe it could integrate both worlds.
Indeed. My hope was to get templates in for 3.18, but that is looking increasingly unlikely. (We need both project and file templates). I'd also like them to be easy to activate, such as typing a bit of the name in the search bar and activating an action.
snippets are not typically per-project though. I want the full header file with the project name and whatnot.
As a stop gap, would adding a ${project_name} variable to the snippet context be useful? Then we could alter the snippets to include it during expansion. Having a generic file template would be closer to having a `license` snippet that looked at the project setting and Did the Right Thing™
That makes a lot of sense as a stop-gap measure.
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