Using Code Templates

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The Source Editor has a set of customizable code templates for common snippets of C and C++ code.

You can generate snippets from these code templates in either of the following ways:

• Type the abbreviation for the code template and then press the spacebar to generate the full code snippet. For example, you can type iff, followed by the spacebar, to automatically generate if () {}. See C and C++ Code Template Abbreviations: Quick Reference for a list of abbreviations
• Type the first few characters of the template, press Ctrl-Spacebar, and select the code template from the code completion box. For example, to generate for (int i = 0; i < ; i++) {}, you can type fori, press Ctrl-Spacebar, press the down arrow key twice, and press Enter.

To keep a code template abbreviation from expanding into the full code snippet, type Shift-Spacebar after typing the abbreviation.

There are also multi-line templates that provide the following benefits:

• You can navigate between variables in the code snippet by pressing the Tab key.
• When you fill in the first occurrence of a variable name that needs to be repeated in the snippet, the variable is filled in automatically in the other places.
• If the IDE detects that you have declared a variable that might be relevant to the code snippet, the IDE fills in that variable for you.