Renaming Algorithm to Heuristic in algorithm2e package

Question

I am trying to write some heuristics for a problem using the algorithm2e package.

However as you may know, when you write :

\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Heuristic 1: Name of Heuristic}
 ...
\end{algorithm}

The output says

---

Algorithm 1: Heuristic 1: Name of Heuristic

---

Do someone know how do I get it to write:

---

Heuristic 1: Name of Heuristic

---

instead ?

PS. I don't know if this command does the trick: \SetAlgoRefName{} I could not get it to work, anyone has an example where they used it?

Related topics are:

• http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg67681.html

In different packages:

• Rename "Algorithm" to "Listing"
• Customizing the algorithm/algpseudocode package

Answer 1

\SetAlgorithmName requires three arguments:

\SetAlgorithmName{algorithmname}{algorithmautorefname}{list of algorithms name}

such as

\SetAlgorithmName{Heuristic}{heuristic}{List of Heuristics}

You could also directly redefine the macros of the algorithm2e package:

\renewcommand*{\listalgorithmcfname}{List of Heuristics}
\renewcommand*{\algorithmcfname}{Heuristic}
\renewcommand*{\algorithmautorefname}{heuristic}