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jakob
jakob

Reputation: 35

Live templates file does not exist in pycharm templates folder?

I wanted to insert multiple live templates. For example whenever I type prop and press tab, then pycharm would write the full property for python.

I wanted to import the following list: https://github.com/hoffmann/PyCharm-Python-Templates

But I can not find the templates folder in <your home directory>\.<product name><version number>\config\templates, as said in https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.1/live-templates.html

Also I am using the community edition 2016.1.4.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 677

Answers (2)

dentuso8
dentuso8

Reputation: 1

I've had the same issue and found that there is one simplest way to insert multiple live templates.

  • Just copy desired template code from *.XML file,
  • open PyCharm's Live Templates Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S -> Editor / Live Templates),
  • select Template Group (such as Python or create your own like a 'user'),
  • and paste in the value. That's all!

It works fine dependless of the operating system, PyCharm version and you shouldn't worry about PyCharm config files location.

You can insert in that way multiply live templates at once.

Upvotes: 0

MichaelD
MichaelD

Reputation: 1326

I got this to work on Windows when I used the path <your home directory>\.PyCharm2018.3\config\jba_config\templates\user.xml (my version of PyCharm is 2018.3.4)

In case this doesn't work for you, you may find where the file belong by following what I did.

  • Open File | Settings | Editor | Live Templates in PyCharm, created a new template called MyNewUniqueLiveTemplate
  • On the command line in the directory <user directory>\.PyCharm2018.3\config "grep"ed for the string MyNewUniqueLiveTemplate.

Upvotes: 0

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