Description Joris Verschoor 2006-11-27 05:31:52 EST

I'd like to suggest the possibility to change the case for inserted variables.
I came accross this when creating a custom template for "property":

// [start]property ${newName} 
private ${type} ${newName};
public ${type} get${newName}() { return ${newName}; }
public void set${newName}(${type} ${newName}) { this.${newName} = ${newName}; }
// [end]

${cursor}

This property template generates a block for a single property + it's getters and setters. The commentline is for the excellent coffeebytes code folding plugin, which I've configured to collapse the user-defined region "property". Back to the important stuff :)

As you can see this template would generate setmyProperty instead of setMyProperty. I suggest the following solution:

if you use: ${NewName} (or any other case-changed variable), it would generate the same casing. ${NEWNAME} would generate all upper-case, and ${NEW_NAME} would generator MY_PROPERTY.

Another solution would be an extra marker that specifies the casing in text, something like : ${newName|camel} and ${newName|upper}, but I thing the first one is more intuitive.