Live Templates

Live Templates is an IntelliJ Idea feature that expands short acronyms into full blocks of code.

To install the live templates:

1. Right click on OPENRNDR.xml → Open In New Window
2. On the new window, select everything except the first and the last lines.
3. Right click on the selected text → Copy
4. In IntelliJ Idea, go to File → Settings → Editor → Live Templates
5. Click on + on the right side of the window to create a Template Group called OPENRNDR.
6. Click on the new OPENRNDR group to select it.
7. Press CTRL+V or Command+V to paste the copied XML templates into the OPENRNDR group.
8. Close the settings window

Now,

1. Navigate into src/main/kotlin on the left panel
2. Create a file called (plotting01.kt for instance)
3. type ora and press the TAB key

It should get expanded into the following:

fun main() = application { 
    configure { }
    program {
        extend {
            
        }
    }
}

To start writing a new program from scratch, repeat the last three steps.

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