Adding items to snippets drawers

This documentation describes how to add a new item to a drawer -in the Snippets view.

To add new items to an existing snippets drawer:

Do one of the following choices: -

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To start with this:	Do this:
An empty item that you can edit	Right-click anywhere in an existing drawer, select Customize, -and click New > New Item.
Existing text pasted into a new item in an existing -drawer	Copy or cut text to the clipboard. In the Snippets view, -right-click anywhere in an existing drawer and click Paste.
Existing text pasted into a new item in a new or existing -drawer	Select the text, right-click, click Add to -Snippets, specify the name of the drawer in the Snippets view -to which you want to add the item, and click OK.

- A Customize Palette window -appears.

Type a name for the new item, and, optionally, provide a description. The value that you type in the Name field -will appear next to the item's icon in the Snippets view.
To include in the Template Pattern field -a variable that you have already defined, click Insert Variable -Placeholder. A variable placeholder is a marker that, -when tagging is inserted into the active file, will be replaced by the value -that is entered into the Insert Template:Item_name dialog -at insertion time. Clicking the Insert Variable Placeholder button -or typing Ctrl+Space activates a pop-up in the text area that prompts you -with the correct sequences to create a marker for the variable. For -example, if you create two variables named uri and prefix, -and create variable placeholders for both, the template pattern might look -like this:
```
<%@ taglib uri="${uri}" prefix="${prefix}" %>
```
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Click OK.

The new item will be added to the list of items in the appropriate -drawer.