How to change the value of user variable used in Eclipse templates

Question

Instead of hardcoding the default  author template I would like Eclipse to use user s real name taken from account information  in Linux - but Windows solution is also welcome   Entering it somewhere into Eclipse configuration would be acceptable  too  alas I can t find the right place

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Windows  gt  Preferences  gt  Java  gt  Code Style  gt  Code Templates  gt  Comments     Or Open eclipse ini file and add following   -Duser name Sumit Singh    Your Name

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dovescrywolf gave tip as a comment on article linked by Davide Inglima  It was was very useful for me on MacOS      Close Eclipse if it s opened  Open Termnal  bash console  and do below things        pwd  Users You YourEclipseInstalationDirectory     cd Eclipse app Contents MacOS      echo  -Duser name Your Name   gt  gt  eclipse ini     cat eclipse ini  Close Terminal and start open Eclipse again

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Open Eclipse  navigate to Window -  Preferences -  Java -  Code Style -  Code Templates -  Comments -  Types and then press the  Edit  button  There you can change your name in the generated comment from  Author   user  to  Author Rajish

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Open Eclipse  navigate to Window -  Preferences -  Java -  Code Style -  Code Templates -  Comments -  Types and then press the  Edit  button  There you can change your name in the generated comment from  Author   user  to  Author Rajish

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dovescrywolf gave tip as a comment on article linked by Davide Inglima  It was was very useful for me on MacOS      Close Eclipse if it s opened  Open Termnal  bash console  and do below things        pwd  Users You YourEclipseInstalationDirectory     cd Eclipse app Contents MacOS      echo  -Duser name Your Name   gt  gt  eclipse ini     cat eclipse ini  Close Terminal and start open Eclipse again

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edit the file  etc eclipse ini  so as to contain entry as   -Duser name myname  Restart the  eclipse  and now  on creation of any new file  with wizard  c c   java   it will use  myname  in place of   user

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This is the file we re all looking for  inside your Eclipse workspace        plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings org eclipse jdt ui prefs   You will find an  author tag with the name you want to change  Restart Eclipse and it will work   For accents you have to use the Unicode format  e g    u00E1  for       You can also modify the  ini  file as prior answers suggest or set the user name var for a global solution  Or override the  author tag in the Preferences menu for a local solution  Those are both valid solutions to this problem   But if you re looking for  that  author name that is bothering most of us  is in that file

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It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user name variable either at your command line  or using the eclipse ini file in your eclipse install root directory  This seems to work fine for me  -showsplash org eclipse platform --launcher XXMaxPermSize 256M -vmargs -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 5 -Duser name Davide Inglima -Xms40m -Xmx512m       Update  http   morlhon net blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username  is a dead link    Here s a new one  https   web archive org web 20111225025454 http   morlhon net 80 blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username

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This is the file we re all looking for  inside your Eclipse workspace        plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings org eclipse jdt ui prefs   You will find an  author tag with the name you want to change  Restart Eclipse and it will work   For accents you have to use the Unicode format  e g    u00E1  for       You can also modify the  ini  file as prior answers suggest or set the user name var for a global solution  Or override the  author tag in the Preferences menu for a local solution  Those are both valid solutions to this problem   But if you re looking for  that  author name that is bothering most of us  is in that file

User · Answer

Window -  Preferences -  Java -  Code Style -  Code Templates -  Comments -  Types Chnage the tage infront   user  to your name   Before          author   user          tags        After           author Waqas Ahmed         tags

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edit the file  etc eclipse ini  so as to contain entry as   -Duser name myname  Restart the  eclipse  and now  on creation of any new file  with wizard  c c   java   it will use  myname  in place of   user

User · Answer

It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user name variable either at your command line  or using the eclipse ini file in your eclipse install root directory  This seems to work fine for me  -showsplash org eclipse platform --launcher XXMaxPermSize 256M -vmargs -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 5 -Duser name Davide Inglima -Xms40m -Xmx512m       Update  http   morlhon net blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username  is a dead link    Here s a new one  https   web archive org web 20111225025454 http   morlhon net 80 blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username

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Rather than changing   user  in eclipse  it is advisable to introduce   -Duser name Whateverpleaseyou  in eclipse ini which is present in your eclipse folder

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Window -  Preferences -  Java -  Code Style -  Code Templates -  Comments -  Types Chnage the tage infront   user  to your name   Before          author   user          tags        After           author Waqas Ahmed         tags

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just other option  goto PREFERENCES    JAVA    EDITOR    TEMPLATES  Select  author and change the variable   user

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Rather than changing   user  in eclipse  it is advisable to introduce   -Duser name Whateverpleaseyou  in eclipse ini which is present in your eclipse folder

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EGit Solution  One would expect creating or changing template variables on a project-  workspace-  or environment-basis is a standard Eclipse feature  Sadly  it is not  More so  given that Eclipse plugins can define new variables and templates  there should be plugins out there providing a solution  If they are  they must be hard to find  mmm-TemplateVariable  which is available in the Eclipse Marketplace  is a step in the right direction for Maven users  giving the ability to include version  artifactId  etc  in templates   Fortunately  EGit  which is an Eclipse tool for Git  provides very flexible means for including many different variables in code templates  The only requirement is that your project uses Git  If you don   t use Git  but are serious about software development  now is the time to learn  Pro Git book   If you are forced to use a legacy version control system  try changing some minds   Thanks to the efforts of harmsk  EGit 4 0 and above includes the ability to use Git configuration key values in templates  This allows setting template values based on repository settings  project   user settings  account   and or global settings  workstation    The following example shows how to set up Eclipse and Git for a multi-user development workstation and use a custom Git configuration key in lieu of   user  to provide more flexibility  Although the example is based on a Windows 10 installation of Eclipse Mars and Git for Windows  the example is applicable to Linux and OSX running Eclipse and Git using their respective command line tools   To avoid possible confusion between Git   s user name configuration key and Java   s user name system property  a custom Git configuration key     user author     will be used to provide an author   s name and or credentials   Configuring Templates  The format of a Git template variable is as follows     lt name gt  git config  lt key gt     where  lt name gt  is any arbitrary variable name and  lt key gt  is the Git configuration key whose value should be used  Given that  changing the Comments Types template to          author   author git config user author           tags        will now attempt to resolve the author   s name from Git   s user author configuration key  Without any further configuration  any newly created comments will not include a name after  author  since none has been defined yet   Configuring Git  From the command line  Git System Configuration - This configuration step makes changes to Git   s system-wide configuration applicable to all accounts on the workstation unless overridden by user or repository settings  Because system-wide configurations are part the underlying Git application  e g  Git for Windows   changes will require Administrator privileges  Run Git Bash  cmd  or PowerShell as Administrator  The following command will set the system-wide author   git config --system user author    SET ME IN GLOBAL USER  or REPOSITORY LOCAL  SETTINGS      The purpose of this    author    is to serve as a reminder that it should be set elsewhere  This is particularly useful when new user accounts are being used on the workstation   To verify this setting  create an empty Java project that uses Git or open an existing Git-based project  Create a class and use Source Generate Element Comment from the context menu  ALT-SHIFT-J  or start a JavaDoc comment  The resulting  author tag should be followed by the warning   The remaining configuration changes can be performed without Administrator privileges   Git Global User  Configuration - Global  or user  configurations are those associated with a specific user and will override system-wide configurations  These settings apply to all Git-based projects unless overridden by repository settings  If the author name is different due to various project types such as for work  open source contributions  or personal  set the most frequently used here   git config --global user author    Mr  John Smith      Having configured the global value  return to the test project used early and apply a class comment  The author tag should now show the global setting   Git Repository Local  Configuration - Lastly  a repository or local configuration can be used to configure an author for a specific project  Unlike the previous configurations  a repository configuration must be done from within the repository  Using Git Bash  PowerShell  etc  navigate into the test project   s repository   git config --local user author    smithy      Given this  new comments in the test project will use the locally defined author name  Other Git-based projects  will still use the global author name   From Within Eclipse  The configuration changes above can also be set from within Eclipse through its Preferences  Team Git-Configuration  Eclipse must be run as Administrator to change system-wide Git configurations   In Sum  Although this example dealt specifically with the most common issue  that of changing   user   this approach can be used for more  However  caution should be exercised not to use Git-defined configuration keys  unless it is specifically intended

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just other option  goto PREFERENCES    JAVA    EDITOR    TEMPLATES  Select  author and change the variable   user

User · Answer

It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user name variable either at your command line  or using the eclipse ini file in your eclipse install root directory  This seems to work fine for me  -showsplash org eclipse platform --launcher XXMaxPermSize 256M -vmargs -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 5 -Duser name Davide Inglima -Xms40m -Xmx512m       Update  http   morlhon net blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username  is a dead link    Here s a new one  https   web archive org web 20111225025454 http   morlhon net 80 blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username

User · Answer

Windows  gt  Preferences  gt  Java  gt  Code Style  gt  Code Templates  gt  Comments     Or Open eclipse ini file and add following   -Duser name Sumit Singh    Your Name

User · Answer

EGit Solution  One would expect creating or changing template variables on a project-  workspace-  or environment-basis is a standard Eclipse feature  Sadly  it is not  More so  given that Eclipse plugins can define new variables and templates  there should be plugins out there providing a solution  If they are  they must be hard to find  mmm-TemplateVariable  which is available in the Eclipse Marketplace  is a step in the right direction for Maven users  giving the ability to include version  artifactId  etc  in templates   Fortunately  EGit  which is an Eclipse tool for Git  provides very flexible means for including many different variables in code templates  The only requirement is that your project uses Git  If you don   t use Git  but are serious about software development  now is the time to learn  Pro Git book   If you are forced to use a legacy version control system  try changing some minds   Thanks to the efforts of harmsk  EGit 4 0 and above includes the ability to use Git configuration key values in templates  This allows setting template values based on repository settings  project   user settings  account   and or global settings  workstation    The following example shows how to set up Eclipse and Git for a multi-user development workstation and use a custom Git configuration key in lieu of   user  to provide more flexibility  Although the example is based on a Windows 10 installation of Eclipse Mars and Git for Windows  the example is applicable to Linux and OSX running Eclipse and Git using their respective command line tools   To avoid possible confusion between Git   s user name configuration key and Java   s user name system property  a custom Git configuration key     user author     will be used to provide an author   s name and or credentials   Configuring Templates  The format of a Git template variable is as follows     lt name gt  git config  lt key gt     where  lt name gt  is any arbitrary variable name and  lt key gt  is the Git configuration key whose value should be used  Given that  changing the Comments Types template to          author   author git config user author           tags        will now attempt to resolve the author   s name from Git   s user author configuration key  Without any further configuration  any newly created comments will not include a name after  author  since none has been defined yet   Configuring Git  From the command line  Git System Configuration - This configuration step makes changes to Git   s system-wide configuration applicable to all accounts on the workstation unless overridden by user or repository settings  Because system-wide configurations are part the underlying Git application  e g  Git for Windows   changes will require Administrator privileges  Run Git Bash  cmd  or PowerShell as Administrator  The following command will set the system-wide author   git config --system user author    SET ME IN GLOBAL USER  or REPOSITORY LOCAL  SETTINGS      The purpose of this    author    is to serve as a reminder that it should be set elsewhere  This is particularly useful when new user accounts are being used on the workstation   To verify this setting  create an empty Java project that uses Git or open an existing Git-based project  Create a class and use Source Generate Element Comment from the context menu  ALT-SHIFT-J  or start a JavaDoc comment  The resulting  author tag should be followed by the warning   The remaining configuration changes can be performed without Administrator privileges   Git Global User  Configuration - Global  or user  configurations are those associated with a specific user and will override system-wide configurations  These settings apply to all Git-based projects unless overridden by repository settings  If the author name is different due to various project types such as for work  open source contributions  or personal  set the most frequently used here   git config --global user author    Mr  John Smith      Having configured the global value  return to the test project used early and apply a class comment  The author tag should now show the global setting   Git Repository Local  Configuration - Lastly  a repository or local configuration can be used to configure an author for a specific project  Unlike the previous configurations  a repository configuration must be done from within the repository  Using Git Bash  PowerShell  etc  navigate into the test project   s repository   git config --local user author    smithy      Given this  new comments in the test project will use the locally defined author name  Other Git-based projects  will still use the global author name   From Within Eclipse  The configuration changes above can also be set from within Eclipse through its Preferences  Team Git-Configuration  Eclipse must be run as Administrator to change system-wide Git configurations   In Sum  Although this example dealt specifically with the most common issue  that of changing   user   this approach can be used for more  However  caution should be exercised not to use Git-defined configuration keys  unless it is specifically intended

User · Answer

It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user name variable either at your command line  or using the eclipse ini file in your eclipse install root directory  This seems to work fine for me  -showsplash org eclipse platform --launcher XXMaxPermSize 256M -vmargs -Dosgi requiredJavaVersion 1 5 -Duser name Davide Inglima -Xms40m -Xmx512m       Update  http   morlhon net blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username  is a dead link    Here s a new one  https   web archive org web 20111225025454 http   morlhon net 80 blog 2005 09 07 eclipse-username

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