agreed. I remember trying to remove some even more annoying occurrences of the template links for cases which leave even less design space for users but it got vetoed unfortunately.
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3876 File headers are at least somewhat useful to configure due to licenses etc. There was a time when NB generated those links for lambdas (!) too :) https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3458 removed it quietly. best regards, michael On 9/26/25 20:20, Kenneth Fogel wrote: > Please, please, please stop having: > /* > * Click nbfs://nbhost/SystemFileSystem/Templates/Licenses/license-default.txt > to change this license > * Click nbfs://nbhost/SystemFileSystem/Templates/Classes/Class.java to edit > this template > */ > appear at the top of class files. Please create an option in Tools->Options > to perform these tasks. > > I do not enjoy that in writing my latest book that uses NetBeans as the > preferred IDE I must add an instruction to immediately delete these first 4 > lines. Sure, I could explain that if they can find these files, clicking on > them does not work in Windows 11, they could edit these lines out of > existence. But why? They are NetBeans configuration, and you should be able > to do this from Options and not from inside a source code file. I apologize > if they are somewhere in Options but I could not find it in the NetBeans meu > choices. > > This has come up before, but the time has come. NetBeans 28 must get rid of > these four lines, In My less than Humble Opinion. > > Ken Fogel > > PS: I went hunting for these files on my Win 11 system and I cannot find them > anywhere. Could someone tell me where the top-secret location is. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
