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Rather than typing this kind of text over and over again (with all the concomitant typos one introduces), the <menuchoice>Snippets</menuchoice> tool of '''KDevelop''' can help here. To this end, open the tool view (see [[Special:myLanguage/KDevelop4/Manual/Working with source code#Tools and views|Tools and views]] if the corresponding button isn't already on the perimeter of your window). Or, go to <menuchoice>Window -> Tool views</menuchoice> in the top menubar, and turn on <menuchoice>Snippets</menuchoice>. Then click on the <menuchoice>Add repository</menuchoice>button (a slight misnomer &mdash; it allows you to create a named collection of snippets for source codes of a particular kind, e.g. C++ sources) and create an empty repository. Then click {{Plus}} to add a snippet, to get a dialog like the following: