20090317 Eclipse tricks

Shortcuts These are the ones I use more often and that immediately come to my mind right now. I have ignored the usual CTRL+C, CTRL+V ones ;-) CTRL + Space code sense: a little dropdown will show up, with available functions/variables depending on what you have already written Alt + / They call it autocomplete, [...]

20090211 Stack overbooooom

This could be one of the reasons why I prefer to install a completely new version of Eclipse rather than updating its existing features – and probably why I haven’t done so since I set up Eclipse in this computer ;-) For the record, this happened when I clicked “Select required” while having PDT SDK [...]

20081210 Add SVN support to your Eclipse installation

UPDATE March 2009: Mr doob informed me this installation method has been superseded in later versions of the IDE, and the connector and all other SVN components are now very easy to install, which kind of invalidates this article. However, the rest of advice regarding the use of SVN in Eclipse is still valid. So [...]

20071121 Eclipse word wrapping, volume 3

Some background first: I have been using eclipse for almost four years now and if there’s something which keeps me going back to other editors, it is the word wrapping feature (or its lack of it). First there was not such a feature, or it was enabled for simple text editors only – not the [...]

20071104 Warning! Flex Builder Plugin for Eclipse will delete your Eclipse folder!! Aaagh!

Since I don’t have Flash Develop on my mac mini but I have plenty of space because I upgraded its hard disk, I thought it was a good moment to install Eclipse and use it at least for ActionScript3 — although I’m quite tempted of doing the same for PHP stuff; the PHP Development Tools [...]