IntelliJ IDEA’s Live Templates are snippets of code that auto-complete at a touch of a key combination increasing your productivity.

Intellij IDEA is the best IDE I have ever used and one reason this is true is live templates.

Live templates are snippets of code that auto-complete at a touch of a key combination saving you valuable figure energy.

And this is how you create Live Template of your own.

Let’s create a live template that surrounds a variable with Objects.requireNonNull().

1. Press CTRL + ALT + S to display the Settings dialogue box
2. Click the + button and select Live Template
3. Enter and abbreviation. Let’s enter orn
4. Enter a description. Let’s enter Objects.requireNonNull(…)
5. Enter the template text. Let’s enter

   java.util.Objects.requireNonNull($SELECTION$)$END$

6. Ticket Shorten FQ names
7. Click the Define link and select Java
8. Let’s use it. Highlight a variable and press CRTL + ATL + J and select the live template we just created.
9. That’s it.

Go make more live templates. Be careful it’s addictive.

Link to IntelliJ Live Template help.