Autocompletion of author in Intellij

Question

I m migrating from Eclipse to Intellij Idea  One thing I couldn t figure out yet is autocompletion of the  author JavaDoc tag  When typing  a in Eclipse  there are two proposals     author - author name  author   How do I achieve the first proposal in Intellij  is it even possible    And if it s possible  how do I change the template of what is inserted for the author name placeholder

User · Answer

Check Enable Live Templates  and leave the cursor at the position desired and click Apply then OK

User · Answer

One more option  not exactly what you asked  but can be useful   Go to Settings -  Editor -  File and code templates -  Includes tab  on the right   There is a template header for the new files  you can use the username here           author myname       For system username use           author   USER

User · Answer

For Intellij IDEA Community 2019 1 you will need to follow these steps       File -  New -  Edit File Templates   -  Class -     Created by   USER    on   DATE

User · Answer

You can work around that via a Live Template  Go to Settings -  Live Template  click the  Add -Button  green plus on the right    In the  Abbreviation  field  enter the string that should activate the template  e g   a   and in the  Template Text  area enter the string to complete  e g   author - My Name   Set the  Applicable context  to Java  Comments only maybe  and set a key to complete  on the right    I tested it and it works fine  however IntelliJ seems to prefer the inbuild templates  so   a   Tab  only completes  author   Setting the completion key to Space worked however   To change the user name that is automatically inserted via the File Templates  when creating a class for example   can be changed by adding  -Duser name Your name  to the idea exe vmoptions or idea64 exe vmoptions  depending on your version  in the IntelliJ bin directory     Restart IntelliJ

[intellij-idea] Autocompletion of @author in Intellij

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