[Lazarus] RFC: Code tools Feature?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:22:21 +0100 (CET)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> I would like to be able to specify a code snippet that is inserted at the start and end of a procedure
>> [...]
>> Similarly, I'd like to be able to specify a code snippet to insert before/after the procedure header:
>> [...]
>> Additionally (and quite importantly) this behaviour should be easily toggled on/off,
>> without having to empty the templates.
>>
>> Maybe such a thing already exists, but I have not been able to locate it ?
>
> There are several such things. They need some work to make them
> more comfortable though:
>
> 1.
> You can add code templates (Ctrl-j). For example for the
> method start
> go to Tools / Code templates,
> then add a new one,
> give it a name, e.g. 'pb' and a description 'procedure begin',
> click "enable macros"
> And as source:
> {$IFDEF LOGPROCESSFLOW}Log('Entering $ProcedureName()');{$ENDIF}
> Click ok to save and close dialog.
>
> Move cursor behind the "begin" and type pb and Ctrl+j.

This is what I do now (useful for adding to existing code), 
but I want to make it even more simple.

> 2.
> I wrote a small command line utility for Graeme that can add/remove code
> to starts/ends of procedures. He needed it for profiling.
> The tool is here:
> components/codetools/examples/addfpprofcalls.lpi
> It is merely a demo, but maybe someone wants to write a dialog
> and/or IDE package.

Aha... Good for backfitting existing code :)

>
>
> 3.
> Donald Ziesig added templates to the IDE to configure some parts of
> class completion. You can try it by compiling Lazarus with
> -dEnableCodeCompleteTemplates. Then you should see new options on the
> code creation page. I had not the time yet to finish it.

This seems to be what I am looking for. I will try this and report.

Thanks. You confirmed once more that Lazarus is simply the best code editor around ;)

Michael.