Comments on: An Update on Eclipse

By: Maxime Pelletier

Maxime Pelletier — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:48:46 +0000

Using eclipse for something like 2 years and me too I hate tab support.
Binded ctrl+tab to the Next Editor command and ctrl+shift+tab to Previous Editor and I use ctrl+pagedown and ctrl+pageup, but it still isn’t like what i’m used to in opera and firefox, so I still use my mouse too often.

Never used vi, so can’t talk about the editor, but it’s fine for me. Just wish I could change the color scheme more easily.

By: vesech

vesech — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:58:52 +0000

I don’t know how you can say “This is mainly due to the excellent editor and layout manager” if you considered yourself a serious vim user or have msvim.vim loaded or something.

I’ve sort of got a love/hate relationship with eclipse. While I find a lot of its features (views, perspectives, etc) are really great, the editor really is so painful to use compared to vim.

It makes me pray for the success of projects like http://vimplugin.org/ and http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ though eclim doesn’t run in a headed instance and vimplugin looks fairly abandoned. Viplugin is quite impressive but as mentioned, the license sucks and it’s just not… vim is it?

By: J5

J5 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:05:12 +0000

viplugin looks nice but it isn’t open source which means even if I buy it I can’t fix it or even know what it is doing under the hood. And besides I don’t need full vi bindings any more. I just want a couple of quick commands like save, close tab and search.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:32:39 +0000

If you miss the vi keybindings there’s an eclipse plugin that’ll give you that.

http://satokar.com/viplugin/

Some people I work with use it.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:13:32 +0000

I’ve recently changed jobs and was forced to use eclipse for a flex builder project. From my past experience a few years ago I was very nervous: however I have to say eclipse now is absolutely awesome. e.g. PyDev, Database tools, JSEclipse, CDT, JDT, subversive! It’s among the top open source applications and is certainly one of the biggest.

All the tool discussions in GNOME should ask one question: How easy is this tool to use in eclipse? This is how to get more developers in GNOME.

Autotools: Very very Rubbish
Git: Rubbish
Bzr: Rubbish

Svn: Great
Ant: Probably great but never tried it?

By: Litrik De Roy

Litrik De Roy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:11:59 +0000

> Loading up a workspace where I left off is priceless for minimizing context switches

If you want to reduce your context switches even more you should definitely look at Mylyn. It keeps track of which files were used when working on certain tasks.

By: Murray Cumming

Murray Cumming — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:43:56 +0000

> Find in files is a great feature (think grep -r) but the UI almost ruins it

Regexxer does this nicely, also showing a preview of what a regex replace would do. I couldn’t live without it now.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:52:26 +0000

I’m also learning my paces under Eclipse. My one piece of advise is for doing quicker searches.

Ctrl-K will repeatedly search for the selected text. Ctrl-J is the ‘inline search mode’, which works similar to the “slash” search command in vi.