I am currently evaluating eclipse after using textmate for all of my developments over the years. what I missed in the eclipse, and what I can not find for the solution are some general patterns:
I use PDT for developing JavaScript and PHP, and it supports code templates. however, in my projects I write a large number of shell scripts, yml configuration files, xml files, gnu scripts, etc. I write the source documentation for all of these scripts using a common syntax (similar to robodoc), and you can save a lot of time when you can insert doc blocks using templates. however, apart from PDT, not all plugin editors support templates.
Is there a general way to store code snippets / templates in eclipse that will work in all editors? I think it should be possible to implement using the eclipse monkey - however, it seems that the development of the monkey has been stopped?
I am using Eclipse 3.4.0.
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