I'm new to Eclipse. One of the things I like most about it is the fantastic indexing, and the symbols/function outline at the right. One of the things I like least about it is how small the code area is due to all of the side-bars (one each in Eclipse CDT at the left, right, and bottom makes the code area quite small).
Is there a quick way to toggle between hiding and showing the sidebars?
After some tinkering around I accidentally discovered it! Just double-click on your open file-name tab and it will maximize to full-screen. Double-click again to toggle it back to your normal "perspective". This applies to the left, right, and bottom sidebars too: just double-click on any of their tabs and they will maximize. Do it again to toggle back to normal size.
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Problem: Detaching the Outline section from Explorer and moving it to the right side.
Tried: right-clicking, changing the settings - cannot find where and how the Outline section be detached from Explorer.
Question: is it possible to detach the Outline Panel from Explorer Panel?
Is there another extension, which the same functionality as Outline, which could be placed on the right side?
Thank you!
This should be supported directly in VSCode 1.64 (Jan. 2022), with the new side panel.
New Side Panel
This milestone, we introduce the Side Panel, a new surface in the workbench to house views from the Side Bar or the bottom Panel appearing opposite the Side Bar.
Unlike the historical ability to move the bottom Panel to the left or the right of the editor, the new Side Panel works in addition to the bottom Panel so you can see more sets of views at once.
To use the Side Panel, you'll need to move some views over to it.
Based on one of our most upvoted feature requests, you might want to move Outline from the Side Bar to Side Panel.
You can do this by dragging and dropping the view into the Side Panel.
If the Side Panel is not open, just like the bottom Panel, dragging a view to the edge of the editor area, will pop it open.
Alternatively, you can use the Move View command for something more keyboard friendly.
Moving Outline View to the Side Panel:
Yes you can, click on the Outline Title Bar and you can move it to any other panel, even the bottom Problems/Terminal panel.
You don't need any special extension for it. Almost all panels can be moved around in VSCode
You cannot have a Floating Window however.
You also Cannot have Two Sidebars
If you want to have the sidebar to the right go to View - Appearance - Move Side Bar Right
As of now, no you cannot have two sidebars, this is the issue tracking that feature.
I can suggest an alternative, you can move the outline to the bottom panel, where the terminal is so that you can have both at the same time but just not as a sidebar.
like this:
or like this but attaching two Bottom Panel tabs together.
Here is a Demo on how to do it
So after a lot of searching, I finally came up with my own solution. Apologies in advance for the poor screenshot quality. I used Microsoft's Steps Recording not realizing the image compression would be so poor.
First, open up a new terminal (Ctrl+Shift+`)
Make sure that the terminal tab is active in the panel. Right click the terminal name on the right-hand side and select "Move into editor area.
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You can then right-click the now-tabbed Terminal in your editor space and select "Split down."
Your editor should look like the image below. However, we're not done yet! Here's where the magic happens. Open another terminal.
Things will look weird but this is going to work.
Click the "Outline" header in the sidebar and drag it into the bottom terminal panel:
Sidebar > (Outline) > Terminal Panel
Next, right-click on the tab bar of the bottom panel and select "Move Panel Right"
Et voila! You should how have a sidebar on the left, and Outline on the right, and a Terminal on the bottom!
I am wondering if it's possible to have a "panel"/view on both sides of my editor in eclipse?
For example, package explorer on the left, editor in the middle (that's the default arrangement) and then to add the debug view on the right. I don't want to split the editor horizontally or vertically but rather to have a whole new panel on the right for the debug.
yes, definitely you can,
first , you have to close whichever window is on the right side, except the editor and then drag the console to the right.I hope this is what you were looking for.
Now I use eclipse CDT but one thing really annoys me.
See this picture:
I cannot use the scroll bar. It only shows up when I move my fingers up and down on my trackpad, and disappears quickly. But scrolling up and down in this way is really inconvenient!!
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Okay. I do not fully solve this problem, but now I find a way to relieve my pain. Window ->Editor ->Toggle split editor. Then, the editor panel is splitted into upper and lower parts, showing different parts of the same file. And in this case, I can drag the scroll bar up and down!
my Eclipse Juno SR1 somehow got screwed up. It seems I have a new area, and if I interpret it correctly, it is called the "Shared Area" (only from a tooltip). I cannot get rid of it by conventional means (i.E. closing/hiding). All files I open now are opened in this shared area, not in the area my files were opened before. The area is distinct from the normal editing area in that it will not go to the same place (top right, under the menus).
The area has only maximize and minimize buttons. Maximizing it will maximize it over everything, this would be expected. Minimizing it actually hides it, but opening an existing file will bring it back as kind of a popup over the eclipse file list.
I do not seem to find how I activated this feature, and I cannot seem to find any activation instructions in the Eclipse help (the help looking for "shared" and "area" separately doesn't really help anyway).
I just want this feature/window/perspective to go away and let me open files like I used to. Any tips?
Edit: Maybe this area is not called "Shared area", this could be wrong. If not, it doesn't seem to have any name. It just forces all editors opening new files to open in it, and not in the area that they usually open in. The way I determined it was called "Shared area" is by minimizing it, then opening a file. It opens as kind of a popup (described above), and there's a menu bar attached with 2 icons, "Restore" and "Shared area", which is pre-selected.
This is the are "docked" to the right:
This is the area docked below:
The area is not dockable in the way that it docks to certain areas of Eclipse, but stretches (when dragged) over the whole Eclipse Window and even outside of it.
You should reset the perspective Window -> Reset Perspective...
The shared area is the default location to open files. The files remain open in the shared area across different perspectives such as Java and Debug so that you can switch between them while working on the same files. You'd generally drag a file outside the shared area to work on it without it appearing in other perspectives.
It's hard to position the shard area view by dragging it, but you can drag the surrounding views in place around it to get it where you want.
I click on the bottom corner of the offending tile and dragged in till it closed! The "reset perspective" did not work for me but the draggin to a smaller size as if it were a picture did. Hope this helps.
If nothing works out for you, simply go to window -> new Window. Opens up a fresh copy of eclipse with everything loaded up. Even on a restart,loads up like normally it would.
I think I know what you mean. If you drag any view to that "Shared Area" but not to the body but to the header (where the title is supposed to be) the dragged view will occupy completely that "Shared Aread".
Hope that helps.
Here's what worked for me:
Menu > Window > Perspective > Open Perspective > Other > Java(default) > Open
Now I can create a new class that shows on the tab next to my working tab.
Ctrl+Shift+{ to toggle it on or Off.
Ctrl+Shift+W to close both of the area.
To scroll within the Eclipse editor without moving the cursor up and down one can use CTRL+Down or CTRL+Up. But what about left and right?
It is not possible. If you search keys in Eclipse's Preferences, you will find out that you only have Scroll up and Scroll down that you can set hotkeys on.
My recommendation would be changing the maximum line length in the editor.
Make your code shorter. After all, looooong lines of code are not so readable.
Also, resize your editor area. If you feel strangled, remove the Outline, TaskList, and Build view from your right side of Eclipse, and enlarge the editor.