I'm currently using Eclipse to work on a PHP project. I commonly need to rename files but have others open that have changed that i'm not quite ready to save. I go to rename a file and a refactoring window pops up to save all documents. Is there a way around this?
Simple renaming is available on 'Navigator'(Window->Show View->Navigator) or 'Project Explorer'(Window->Show View->Other->General/Project Explorer).
(it seems that there is no workaround on PHP Explorer)
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To facilitate code reuse across projects, I set up this (quick and dirty) method to access recent projects.
In the current project, I add a link (z-themes) to a folder that contains links to recent projects. This enabled me to access those files without having to open the whole project (this worked in Espresso).
In Sublime Text, links are not followed and symlinks mess with the file search (files in the linked folders appear in the Go to file panel, so I might open the wrong file)
The question is: how do easily I access files in predefined folders outside the current project?
Plugins and alternative workflows are welcome.
Perhaps something like FuzzyFileNav? That plugin allows you to set up bookmarks to a particular folder. You can then navigate through folders as you would normally in the file system.
I found Goto Folder: it's very simplistic and doesn't allow for any file management like FuzzyFileNav does (which could be nice) but it allows for simple bookmarks and it behaves well.
Edit: I also found FileBinder
This is what I use now: I created a previous projects "project" just for the older files.
simple to add projects (drag their folder to the sidebar)
use Sublime's file search across all the files
old projects' files are separated from the current project
no plugins to update/figure out
Only thing is that I'll have to keep a separate window open just for this, but it's not a big deal.
So i want to format a bunch of files that i have to a certain standard. The problem is, there is A LOT of files. Is there anyway to have Eclipse open a file, hit CTRL+SHIFT+F (to format the file), save it, close it, then open the next file and repeat that process through a directory that i specify?
I don't have any experience with scripting so i have not even attempted doing something like this. I looked into plugins for Eclipse that could maybe do this but i really didn't get anywhere.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
You can right-click on any source folder in the Package Explorer (including the root of the project) and select Source > Format, or Source > Cleanup (which gives you even more control than a simple format)
You can right click on a folder in the Navigator or Package Explorer view and select Source -> Format. This will format all the files in the selected directory.
I have a similar problem to this guy: Importing/Exporting Project Preferences, but my problem is worse, I need to create a new workspace (i.e. new base directory) for every program or version that I work on. I have some common preferences (formatter, font size, etc) that I have exported to a file, which I then import every time I create a new workspace, but would like to skip the step of manually importing the .epf file. Has anybody seen an easy way to automate this?
EDIT: to help potential respondents answer the question, here is my workflow for handling a bug patch. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong in general that you could correct (since I've only been using Eclipse for a couple of years and tend to prefer emacs so I haven't spent a lot of time learning new Eclipse features)?
Create new directory for the workspace.
Start Eclipse editor and open clean workspace.
Check out a CVS directory containing .psf files for the various programs (necessary because of a pre-existing CVS tree structure that does not play nice with Eclipse).
Use team import on the .psf file associated with the program I'm working on to pull in the necessary projects.
Switch all projects to the branch tag associated with the release in question.
Work...
I think that Workspace Mechanic solves all your problems.
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/workspacemechanic/
copy your original workspace. Easy, reliable, but will also copy all your projects.
I often have to open a secondary editor outside of Netbeans in order to work on temporary bits of text outside of my project files. Is there a way to create temporary files in Netbeans without adding them to a project?
File -> New expects every file to be part of a project.
I know this has already been answered successfully, but there is now a proper Netbeans plugin for this requirement: http://code.google.com/p/netbeans-scratchpad-plugin/ It works nicely for me and allows multiple scratchpads which can be handy.
Also note that the Copy/Paste History plugin which is available by default (with NB7 at least) is handy for this too.
HTH,
JD
By default, there is no such feature yet (I'm using 6.5).
You could include a folder in the Favorites window, and right click > New > Empty File from the folder, it won't be part of the project.
If you press Shift+Ctrl+T or choose "Navigate > Open Type..." you get the "Open Type" dialog for quickly navigating to a known class. When you start typing a name only the classes for which the name matches stay visible. That way you can find a class of which you know the name very quick without having to browse through the package explorer tree.
This has been working great for me up until this morning. All of a sudden for a couple of my projects I am only seeing some of the types that exist. Of course I tried the obvious steps of refreshing the projects, cleaning the projects, re-building the projects, rebuilding the projects externally, but all to no avail. It is a bit odd since the types are known in other places. If I add an import statement Eclipse does not complain that it doesn't know the type and I can Ctrl-Click through the types to get to their file. However, the type navigation knows nothing about them.
In the past when InteliJ used to do this to me I would go find its cache files and delete them forcing it to rebuild. Does Eclipse have something similar I might do (I'm an Eclipse newbie)? I am using Eclipse 3.4.2 and I have it configured to not delete files on a clean (because our actual build process puts files into the output directories that I don't want Eclipse mucking with).
Have you tried closing and reopening the project? Only types from open projects are held in memory, and the refresh occurs when you Shift+Ctrl+T for the first time on a newly opened project.
Edit to add: Ctrl+Shift+R also displays the types (along with everything else) but it also supports the Camel-case thing to find the Java types quickly.
Close eclipse and delete any .index files and the savedIndexNames.txt file in workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core once eclipse is restarted it will rebuildl the entire index for Ctrl+T
try starting eclipse with the -clean flag, you can add this to your eclipse.ini which can be found in the same directory as you eclispe.exe, or if you start eclipse using a bat or shell script, add it as a startup argument, e.g. eclipse -clean.
The clean will tidy your workspace, and should force eclipse JDT to recalulate types. Ive had issue with .snap files (with seem to be created on dirty shutdowns) that seem to corrupt my workspace until I clean them up, not long ago eclipse lost the Object class!! made for some interesting errors!
I get problems like this often. I tried your solution, noticed it seemed to rebuild its search index, but I still couldn't find any of my classes. Then I took a look at the little green arrow on top right corner of that dialog, and noticed I had a working set selected which belonged to another project. I find it a little dumb that Eclipse doesn't warn you about this or anything, since this can be a very annoying little detail that one tends to forget (me at least ;-)).
Anyways, clicked on "Deselect Working Set" and bam I can find my classes again. Thought I'd add this here since others may make the same mistake.
This worked for me -
Select your project in Package Explorer
Press F5 or Right click and select Refresh
I used the "-clean" as first line in the eclipse.ini (version Juno) and worked like a charm.
I'v tried all the answers and I still had the issue. I then tried this:
I deleted the project (it's a maven project) and re-imported it. This time I made sure i check the "Add Project(s) to working set" checkbox. After that Eclipse was able to find the classes in that project.
The problem must have started because I didn't check this checkbox when i first imported this project.
By the way, I'm using Neon
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If you like this feature, you would love nWire. nWire allows, among other things, to quickly search not only for types, but for any possible Java element like method or field. It also uses a navigator view which is non-modal. After searching you can see the class associations in a very quick and easy way. Check out the video on our site.