[Lazarus] "project template options" menu entry

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:

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> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Marc Santhoff wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I have found the meu entry "tools - project template options" and
>> scanned the wiki for documentation about it - to no avail.

This menu item comes with the package 'projecttemplates' written by  
Michael van Canneyt.

I added a wiki page:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Project_Templates


>>
>> What does it do exactly and in which format are the template expected to
>> be?
>>
>> I assume this is something similar to the code completion feature
>> (ctrl-j), does it affect this feature too?
>>
>> What I was searching for is simple access to my personal copyright
>> headers, comment block to put in front of functions and procedures, and
>> so on. I'd love if I could use them like ordinary text files but without
>> having to navigate a file manager to the directory outside the
>> lazarus/fpc tree each time.
>
> Project templates are complete projects to start from.
>
> /components/projecttemplates/README.txt
>
> explains their usage.

Mattias