How to customize eclipse CDT code templates

Question

I need the code I am writing for a project to match some style guidelines. However the standard templates included with CDT don\'t match this style. Especially the layout of

Answer 1

So in the Preferences dialog under C/C++ -> Code Style -> Code Templates you can modify the template to be closer to what you need, for example if you need the namespace in the guard, you can do something like.

${filecomment}

#ifndef ${namespace_name}_${include_guard_symbol}
#define ${namespace_name}_${include_guard_symbol}

${includes}

${namespace_begin}

${declarations}

${namespace_end}

#endif /* ${namespace_name}_${include_guard_symbol} */

Answer 2

We've had a similar struggle on our project. One solution is to throw out ${include_guard_symbol} in the template all together, and define it yourself, possibly using some of the other predefined variables. Something like this:

${filecomment}

#ifndef MyProject_${file_base}_h
#define MyProject_${file_base}_h

${typecomment}
${declarations}

#endif /* MyProject_${file_base}_h */

So for a header file named inc/Foo.h, the include guard would be inserted like this:

#ifndef MyProject_Foo_h
#define MyProject_Foo_h

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to customize much beyond that. For example, if I defined a class nested in a namespace, I might want to put the namespace as part of the include guard. I can't find a way to do that in eclipse, currently.