Tooling to help you starting a code generator from an example - To go Further...

Few weeks ago Cedric Brun announced a new way to create in a few minutes a pragmatic code generator with Acceleo. He said that Acceleo provides a specific tooling to help you starting a code generator from an example :

• the new file wizard with the option to initialize it with an existing file content

• the search & replace smart completion to quickly transform the example to a real template we can apply on a model

• the "for" closing brace completion auto-magically find a coherent place

Since his message, we have added several menu items to go further :

• "Refactor > Extract As Template..." to create a new template with the selected text

• "Source > As Protected Area..." to define a protected area where we can regenerate target files without losing any modification

• "Quickfix" when an operation call doesn't compile, you can create a new template or a new query that make the compilation work