Dollar signs as strings in templates? Follow

Hi Brian,

It's either $$ or \$ (don't remember exactly, but I think it is actually \$) to have the $ in the end (after processing template) -- try on some simple template first.

Thanks for the reply.  I tried both of your suggestions, but neither seemed to work.  Maybe there's a config somewhere to allow me to turn off template variables (I don't use them at all...)  

Hi Brian,

(To double check) As I understand we are talking about File Templates (Settings | File Templates), not Live Templates, right?

In any case:

1. Please provide an example (or two) of your template(s) -- template itself (plain text, so it can be copy-pasted) and screenshot of how does it look after/during processing
   
2. State your OS and full PhpStorm version (Help | About)

Maybe there's a config somewhere to allow me to turn off template variables (I don't use them at all...)  

There is no such option available.

To escape a dollar character ($):
1) in Live Templates, use an extra $ (dollar) character.
2) In File Templates, use a backslash (\) in accordance with the Velocity Syntax.

See also http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/escaping-characters-in-velocity-variables-and-directives.html
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/creating-and-editing-live-templates.html

Ok, so everything I'm trying based on the suggestions and my own guesses doesn't seem to work.  I am using File Templates (not Live Templates) and I'm using PHPStorm vers 3.0.3 on OSX 10.7.4.

Here's an example of a template for my basic Backbone View object:

define(function(require){

    var $ = require('order!jquery');

    var _ = require('order!underscore');

    var Backbone = require('order!backbone');

    var Mustache = require('order!mustache');

    var bus = require('bus');

    var Collection = require('path/to/Collection.js');

    var ChildView = require('path/to/item.view.js');

    var template = require('text!../path/to/template.html');

    var View = Backbone.View.extend({

        tagName: 'div',

        className: 'myViewClassName',

        initialize: function(options){

            this.options = options || {};

        },

        render: function(){

            this.options.i18n = function(){

                return function(i18nKey){

                    return $.i18n.prop(i18nKey);

                }

            };

            this.$el.html(Mustache.to_html(template, this.options));

            this.collection = new Collection();

            this.renderItems();

            return this;

        },

        renderItems: function(){

            var self = this;

            this.collection.each(function(model){

                self.$el.append(new ChildView(model.attributes).render().el);

            });

        }

    });

    return View;

});


Whenever I try to create a new file from this template, it hangs on the dollar signs.  It fires an alert modal that tells me the parser was expecting different characters than it ran into:

Unable to parse template "backbone view"

Error message: Encountered "));

            this.collection = new Collection();

            this.renderItems();

            return this;

        },

        renderItems: function(){

            var self = this;

            this.collection.each(function(model){

                self." at MyTemplate[line 27, column 67]

Was expecting one of:

    "[" ...

    "," ...

    ")" ...

     ...


I tried both the '$$' and '\$' escape cues, but neither prevented the alert modal.  As a workaround, I'm storing a special character string for the dollar signs 'DOLLAR_SIGN' that I run a string replace on immediately after the file has been created.  A bit cumbersome, and it works, but I'd really like to be able to just turn off the template parser as it's not something I'm going to use at this point.


Thanks.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for example. I have got the same error (regardless of any escaping I have tried).

For me it looks like this issue (check the last comment, seems similar to yours): http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-8979

If you think it is not exactly your case (which quite possibly can be the case) then submit new ticket as Issue Tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WI

Yep, looks like others are having exactly the same issue.  I added to the issue thread.

Thanks!

Thanks for your feedback gents. Looks like platform bug, we'll work on it as soon as possible.

Use triple $

Link to gist

https://gist.github.com/nevercodealone/cd3ff46467492395ba30451c876e2d67

@Ronals Golla

Your case is Live Templates while original post is about File Templates.

For Live Templates it's not triple $ but just double $

From your example:

protected $$$attribute$ = '';

$$ -- will represent $ sign in the final text

$attribute$ -- actual variable

http://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/2016.3/creating-and-editing-live-templates.html

Hi, sorry for wrong topic. but two are not working for me. 2017.1 EAP

What do you mean by "not working" exactly? Can you please clarify?

Based on your example (I hope it's more clear this way):

$$$attribute$ = $$ + $attribute$  (dollar + variable)  -- will be $var in the final text

If that's what you mean by "triple $" -- so be it. But technically it's "double $" + variable (variable name is surrounded by dollar signs)

Just in case somebody stumbles upon this thread like I did. Neither $$varname nor \$varname would work. You should use ${DS}varname instead. DS stands for dollar sign.

SO if I want my Live Template to insert DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )" what do I need to put in Live Template?

@Pouledodue

For a Live Template? Just double the $ signs:

DIR="$$( cd "$$( dirname "$${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

thanks buddy