Kile ⇒ texniccenter text modules in kile?

[mf205]

I've recently moved from texniccenter to kile. One feature I found really useful in texniccenter was the option to manage and insert my own text modules. Can kile do this?

[frabjous]

From the Kile Handbook (available through F1 if you have a full installation of Kile) explains this in section 8. You might want to read this directly there, since it has some images, but I'll quote the relevant part:

User-Defined Tags
Kile gives you the ability to make your own tags. A tag is similar to a shortcut that launches some command or writes frequently-used text. For example, Joe Sixpack uses often the sentences I prefer \LaTeX\ to \TeX\ and What would I do without Linux?. To create user-defined tags to write these sentences, he would access LaTeX->User Tags->Edit User Tags...; this will present him a dialog where he can create his own user-defined tags.

He would probably give each tag a name that can clearly identify it. The name you give your tag is entered in the section marked Menu item, and the text of frequently-used command should be entered into the section labeled Value. Once the commands are entered, he can use them quickly using the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-1 for the first tag to enter I prefer \LaTeX\ to \TeX\ and Ctrl-Shift-2 to enter What would I do without Linux?.

There are some placeholders you can use in user-defined tags: they are %B, %C, %M and %S.
%B: will be replaced by a bullet.
%C: this is where the cursor will be placed after the insertion of a user-defined tag.
%M: this stands for marked text; the selected text is inserted in its place when inserting user-defined tags.
%S: will be replaced by the source file's name without file extension.
To show you how this works let's say for example that we have a user-defined tag, which contains the value \bfseries{%M}%C, and I have a selection of text highlighted in my document that we want to turn into bold text. So, we highlight the phrase I love Fridays, apply our user-defined tag by pressing Ctrl-Shift-1, and we get the text \bfseries{I love Fridays}, with the cursor placed at the end of the text.

(Of course you can also use these commands through the menu, or add them to a toolbar--something I never got working right in TXC when I used it.)

[mf205]

Many thanks.