Live templates

Types of live templates

The following types of live templates are distinguished:

• Simple templates contain only fixed plain text. When you expand a simple template, the text is automatically inserted into your source code, replacing the abbreviation.

  Abbreviation	Expands to
  tab	CREATE TABLE new_table ( col INT NOT NULL );
  col	col int not null

• Parameterized templates contain variables that enable user input. When you expand a parameterized template, variables are either replaced by input fields for the user to specify manually, or calculated by DataGrip automatically.

  Abbreviation	Expands to
  ins	INSERT INTO ... (...) VALUES (...);
  sel	SELECT * FROM ...;
  selc	SELECT count(*) FROM ... alias WHERE alias. ...;
  selw	SELECT * FROM ... alias WHERE alias. ...;
  upd	UPDATE ... SET ... = ... WHERE ...;

• Surround templates wrap a block of the selected code with the text specified by the user.

Postfix code completion is similar to live templates. It transforms the current expression without selecting it. For example, you can type .cfrom after an expression to invoke the corresponding postfix completion and expand the SELECT statement to SELECT <all_column_names_from_table> FROM <table>.

Configure live templates

To configure live templates, open the Editor | Live Templates page of the Settings/Preferences Ctrl+Alt+S. On the Live Templates page, you can see all the available live templates, edit them and create new templates.

Templates are grouped according to the context where they can be used (usually, by the corresponding language). To move a template to another group, right-click the template, select Move, and then select the necessary group name.

Set an SQL dialect for a live template

You can select a specific dialect for a live template. For example, if you want the upd template to work only in MySQL and not in Db2.

1. In Settings Ctrl+Alt+S, navigate to Editor | Live Templates.

2. Expand the SQL tree.

3. Right-click the template you want to modify and select Change context.

4. In the Change Context Type for Selected Templates window, expand the SQL tree node and select the context.

Each live template is defined by an abbreviation containing alphanumeric characters, dots, and hyphens. The abbreviation must be unique within a group, but the same abbreviation may be used in different groups and expand to different constructs according to the context of the corresponding group. Abbreviations of modified default templates are shown in the list with blue font.