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| Summary: | Provide caret positioning in files created from templates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | editor | Reporter: | matthies <matthies> |
| Component: | Completion & Templates | Assignee: | Dusan Balek <dbalek> |
| Status: | REOPENED --- | ||
| Severity: | blocker | CC: | mattchaput |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
Reassigning to "editor" ... Bump? This is really a desirable feature, and apparently it's a regression, judging by tutorials available on the web. This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss Still relevant in current dev build. |
Provide the possibility to specify in a text file template where the caret/selection should be positioned when the file is opened in the editor after being created via File -> New. E.g. something like "${caret}" and/or "${begin_selection}"/"${end_selection}". Note that Code Templates (Tool -> Options -> Editor -> Code Templates) already provide this with "${cursor}". I suspect this may require some magic to make it work with FreeMarker, but after having used this feature extensively with other editors I'm really missing it here.