[Richly]

In Window > Preferences… > Java > Editor > Templates, the template named @author is defined to use the variable ${user}. On my system, this shows up as __USER__. I know that I could change the template to have my name instead of referencing the variable, but I’m sure that the “proper” way to do this is to define the variable appropriately. I know that I’ve done this successfully before on some IDE, but I cannot figure out how to do this for Eclipse.

Where is this variable defined, and how can I change it?

Thanks,
– Richard

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to OT > Soft Dev

You may just be missing a USER environment variable, try setting USER to something, o Windows:

set USER="richly"
echo %USER%

Unix/Mac:

export USER="richly"
echo $USER

[Richly]

Thanks for the suggestion, but setting USER doesn’t help, nor does setting USERNAME or USER.NAME. For NetBeans, the USER is set within the IDE — Tools > Options > Advanced Options > Java Sources > Strings Table. I can’t figure out a similar setting within MyEclipse. Is there one?

Thanks,
– Richard

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