[SOLVED] Code Snippets...

[GypsyPrince]

I have searched the forum but cannot find the question I need answered in any existing topic.
I had to put off learning Lazarus (Object Pascal) for a year and a half, and I am just now dusting off my keyboard to give it another go.
Can anyone tell me if the Lazarus IDE has a feature for entering coded/comment snippets into one's source code. Or, am I stuck with copy and paste?

Thanx in advance!

[lainz]

You can insert 'ToDo' from the sources menu. 

Code Completion is good to know
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_IDE_Tools#Code_Completion

For everything else, copy and paste is still the best.

[Thaddy]

AFAIK at least some people almost always write complete compilable "snippets" on this forum. With the essential snippet marked as such...

[lainz]

Or here
https://github.com/TAAZZ/CODELIBRARIAN

You can extend that with your own codes.

[Martin_fr]

There is "code templates" in the Tools menu.

[GypsyPrince]

Thank you all very much for your help! I greatly appreciate you wisdom!

Martin_fr -

That (code templates) was what I was looking for. It took me a minute to figure out how it works, and how to add my own snippets directly to the file rather than using the Code Templates dialog so that I could arrange them in alphabetic order. The dialog appends new snippets to the very end of the [lazarus.dci] file and doesn't rearrange the new custom abbreviations in alphabetic order. But I manually edited the file, arranging my custom abbreviations (and their corresponding snippets) in alphabetic order, and it now works exactly how I wanted.