Procedure boilerplate wont expand [SOLVED]
lazarus / 9-Editor

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vick · 2014-08-21 21:50

Hello, I'm just learning Pascal and Lazarus so I don't now if it's
supposed to work like that. So in the Editor i type
procedu
and press Control-J. This is what I get
procedure $Param(ProcName)($Param());
begin
  |
end;
(this is a literal pipe symbol between begin and end, not the cursor).
However, 'function' and 'classf' autocompletion work like I'd expect.
Is that a bug? From what I understand, this macro should be auto
expanded by Lazarus. I'm using Lazarus 1.2.4 and FPC 2.6.4 on Linux
(gtk2).

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taazz · 2014-08-21 22:20

yes it is, you need to open the menu "Tools\Code Templates" locate the
line that reads procedure in the top list and select it, then check
"enable macros " delete the first pipe character in the first line and
press ok.

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vick · 2014-08-21 22:54

Thank you, taazz! I enabled macros and deleted pipe char in
lazarus.dci. Now it works.