[Glen Ihrig]

Confusion editing new file templates

MyEclipse for Spring 8.6
OS X 10.5.8

There are a variety of new file templates available from File -> New. “HTML (Advanced Templates)” for example.

There is also a collection of templates in MyEclipse -> Preferences -> MyEclipse -> Files and Folders.

As near as I can tell, there is no relationship between these two locations. Many of the templates in Preferences do not appear on the File -> New menu and editing some that do appear, or creating new templates in Preferences has no affect on what is generated when a template is invoked from File -> New.

Is this expected behavior in the Mac environment?

Please enlighten me on customizing new file templates.

Regards,

-Glen

Installation Details
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*** Date:
Friday, August 6, 2010 6:35:22 PM PDT

** System properties:
OS=MacOSX
OS version=10.5.8
Java version=1.5.0_24

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 8.6
Build id: 8.6-20100723

*** Eclipse details:
MyEclipse for Spring

Version: 8.6.0

Eclipse startup command=-os
macosx
-ws
carbon
-arch
x86
-showsplash
-launcher
/Applications/Development/DevelopmentFolders/MyEclipse for Spring 8.6/myeclipseforspring.app/Contents/MacOS/myeclipseforspring
-name
Myeclipseforspring
–launcher.library
//../../../../../../../Library/Genuitec/Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.carbon.macosx_1.0.200.v20090520-1835/eclipse_1206.so
-startup
/Applications/Development/DevelopmentFolders/MyEclipse for Spring 8.6/myeclipseforspring.app/Contents/MacOS/../../../../../../../Library/Genuitec/Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
-install
/Applications/Development/DevelopmentFolders/MyEclipse for Spring 8.6
-configuration
../../../configuration
-keyring
/Users/glen/.eclipse_keyring
-consoleLog
-showlocation
-vm
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework

[Glen Ihrig]

I worked out the connection.

The user configurable templates found in Preferences -> MyEclipse -> Files and Folders are available from the “Other” menu.

File -> New -> Other -> MyEclipse -> Web -> HTML (Basic Templates).

But that’s only half the battle. Preferences also contains templates for tags e.g. ul or table. These template entries have their “Auto Insert” property set to “on”, yet when I invoke table tag auto complete (<t, Ctrl-Space) the template that is expanded is not the one from Preferences.

How can I make use of the tag templates found in Preferences?

Regards,

-Glen

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