How do I modify the set method signature that Eclipse auto generates?

Question

My current project has the coding convention that instance variables are never referred to with the this. prefix and that parameters should never hide instance variables.

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Answer 1

Very simple...

1. In your project, under the root project folder, create a folder called .settings (it might already be there).
2. In this folder, create a text file called org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
3. In this file, include the following line:

org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.argumentPrefixes=a

That's it, your done. It should just work. I couldn't find proper documentation for this, but here are some other options you might set:

org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.argumentPrefixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.argumentSuffixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.fieldPrefixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.fieldSuffixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.localPrefixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.localSuffixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.staticFieldPrefixes= org.eclipse.jdt.core.codeComplete.staticFieldSuffixes=