Ideally the content copied to the clipboard from snippets containing code should be compilable. For variable initialization, the snippet

     * {@snippet lang=java :
     * Path path = ...
     * }

should be manifested in the clipboard as something like

     Path path = null;

rather than

     Path path = ...

which could be effected using @replace:

     * {@snippet lang=java :
     * Path path = null; // @replace substring=“ = null;” replacement=“...”
     * }

In the case of non-specific omitted code such as

 * {@snippet lang=java id="be" :
 * try {
 * begin();
 * // Perform blocking I/O operation here
 * ...

the snippet could be changed to

 * {@snippet lang=java id="be" :
 * try {
 * begin();
 * // Perform blocking I/O operation here
 * code: // @replace substring=“code:” replacement=“...”