Is it possible to show files in package explorer in the order of date they were created? I am using eclipse juno and I couldn't find any customize option in view menu of the project..
Currently the package explorer shows items in alphabetic order which cause me to search through the files to find the last modified project or java file. Can someone help?
I'd comment if I could to ask for clarification but don't have enough points...
I assume you don't have a team repository or you would have enabled its label decorations, which I know is available in svn. Label decorations will show the team metadata associated with the files. It won't have them sorted but with a small set, you can scan them manually.
In order for this to be useful with a large set, the sort would have to be across all folders/packages. You could open up file explorer(assuming windows os), to the project folder, perform a search with filter of 'datemodified:'. Now you may have to remove the semi-colon and add it again, hit enter. That would sort the folders by date, then the files by date..across all folders.
Its ugly but it works (as far as I understand the question). Good luck.
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When i press Ctrl+Shift+R to open the Open Resource Dialog box, the filter box does not show most of the other resource files for example.. jsp, xml etc. it works fine with all the java files.. This is happening for only this particular java project. i have refreshed the project multiple times but still no-go. I have also rebuilt the index for eclipse under workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core by deleting the index files but to no avail.
I am using eclipse Kepler version. Any help would be great..
Thanks All. Yes i had closed and opened the project many times. I have also not set any Resource filter exclusions. What i noticed was that opening any of these files for edit would set off an alert saying file was derived and would i like to edit? But on the properties for these file they were not ticked as derived but rather as Archived. So had to manually hunt for the parent folder which was making these files as derived. Also noticed that the Open Resource Dialog box has option for including Resource files "Show Derived Resources"...
This one helped me solve the problem
Eclipse treating all the files in a project as Derived
This is going to sound ridiculous...but maybe this'll help others too: make sure your file search string is correct! You may need to begin it with a wildcard (*).
I lost about 45 minutes on this as the result of user error.
I was looking for some local files named eRCaGuy_PPM_Writer.h and eRCaGuy_PPM_Writer.cpp (from my repo here). So, I pressed Ctrl + Shift + R and searched for ppm_writer, as shown here:
Nothing! It would not find those files! No matter what I did to the files it couldn't seem to find them. I tried all sorts of things. Then, I realized Eclipse doesn't have a fancy fuzzy search like Sublime Text 3, so I simply added an asterisk (*) to the front of the search, and voila! It works perfectly. Since the "PPM_Writer" part of those two file names is NOT at the beginning, I must start the search with a wildcard (*).
Now it works fine, as you can see here:
I've just added a note about this to my personal Eclipse setup and configuration instructions here: https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy/eRCaGuy_dotfiles/tree/master/eclipse (for my full documentation, see also the PDF and Google Drive links at the top of that page).
The Eclipse content assist for PHP (and I'm assuming for other types as well) isn't using the currently active working set - it's searching ALL files in the project. How do I change it to only use the active working set?
When doing a Ctrl+Shift+R search, it was also looking for all files in the project (not what I wanted), until I clicked the small black triangle in that window and selected the working set I wanted it to use. Now it successfully only shows the files that match my search string in the working set. However, this doesn't change anything in the autocomplete content assist feature (i.e. doing a Ctrl+Space to complete the name of a function or variable). Is there any way to accomplish this?
I'm using Eclipse Indigo release, so it's very recent.
I'm afraid it's not possible the way you put it. Eclipse Working Sets just give you a way to organize your projects.
However you may want to take a look at Mylyn, which is fully integrated with Eclipse platform. Here and here is a nice overview of what you can do with Mylyn. But briefly, what it allows you to do is to create a task and maintain a context associated with it. This way, only the relevant files will be displayed in Project Explorer and autocomplete would suggest you only task-focused options.
Does Aptana have a file diff tool? Given it's a fairly standard dev requirement, I'm surprised there isn't one embedded in the IDE already. Does anyone have a good solution to this?
I haven't had much experience with eclipse but seeing that Aptana is built as an Eclipse plugin, would other Eclipse plugins be compatible?
Thanks!
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Annnnnnnnd wouldn't you know it, after months of ruing the lack of file diff every time the need has arisen, I've just found the functionality within Aptana.
Select 2 files in the various file lists within Aptana via CTRL+left click (i.e. the Project Explorer or Navigator panes)
right click on the highlighted file you want to appear on the left of the diff screen and chose the 'Compare With' -> 'Each Other' option.
I just updated Aptana to the newest release today so I'm not sure if it's a new addition but I'd be willing to bet that it's been there for a long time and I am just a nonce.
Ta for clicking on my question anyway. :)
Aptana does have file diff. It is under Compare With item when you right click a file in your project. Select two files and use Compare With > Each Other to see the diff between two local files. You can also compare your files with remote sources if you use synchronization or source control.
In case someone ran to the same situation as mine.
I can't seem to compare a file from the Local Filesystem folder and the project folder.
What I did is select both files under the Filesystem folder.
Anyone know how to ignore the build folder when doing a 'Find in Projects' on NetBeans (v6.9.1).
Currently the Search results pane shows all results from src folders but also those from the build folder so if your project contains a lot of JSP files for example, many results are duplicated...
I think I've figured out how to ignore the build folder of projects when doing a 'Find in Projects' in NetBeans 6.9.1:
Go to Tools->Options-Miscellaneous.
Click the Files tab.
In Files Ignored by the IDE, edit the Ignored Files Pattern
regular expression and include the build folder. For example, on
my system I simply added build thus:
^(CVS|SCCS|vssver.?\.scc|#.*#|%.*%|_svn|build)$|~$|^\.(?!htaccess$).*$
Click OK to save the options and close the dialog.
(Nerd Note: Took me exactly 1 year to the day to figure this out!)
You may be able to get similar behavior with a multiple node selection search.
From the 'Files' Window (Found in the Window/Files Menu), expand all
of your projects and select all of them with a Ctrl+A (PC) or
Command+A (Mac).
Then with Control(PC) or Command(Mac) key held down, click the
folders that you don't want to search.
Finally, use Ctrl+F(PC) or Command+F(Mac) to open a search, enter the
text you're looking for, and then choose 'Selection ( # nodes)' under
the Scope where the '#' symbol is the number of folders you just selected.
It is a little more manual than applying a filter, but you should be able to better control your results.
Simple question: how do I search all the files currently open in Eclipse? Note: I don't wanna search all the files I have in that workspace, just the ones open in tabs. Is there an easy way to do this?
Closest way is selecting several resources in Navigator or Package Explorer view, then press Ctrl+H and choose 'Selected Resources' radio button. It will limit search only to selected files.
CTRL+E on Windows or Linux, and Command+E on OSX.
There's no way to do that at the moment.
The easiest solution would be to select your files manually (holding CTRL + click on file) and to specify "selected resources" as your search scope.
This may come too late for the original poster, but just in case somebody else needs to find out an answer, I had the same problem and found my solution by installing a plug-in named Instasearch. You can get it by going to Help/Eclipse Marketplace and searching for Instasearch.
You can find more about this plug-in in the following address.
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/instasearch
Spring produces a stand-alone Eclipse plugin (no dependencies on Spring) called Quick Search
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/quick-search-eclipse
For efficiency, it searches your open files first. So while it isn't purely restricting to opened files as you requested, you can still get a similar effect in practice by just clicking the first results that come up.
The currently opened files simply aren't considered special in eclipse - you have far more advanced methods of organizing your files: projects and working sets.
Working sets allow you to define sets of files, which can be used as constraints for many operations. You have to define them explicitly, but then they don't change just because you've closed a file.
There is no find-in-open-files command in Eclipse, no.
I think that the main reason find-in-open-files is not implemented in Eclipse is probably because the set of open files is for many users rather insignificant. (In fact, I don't know (or care) which files I have open. (I even have Eclipse set to automatically close editors/files when they become too many). If I want to navigate to a file, I open it. Limiting a search to the files I currently have open would be completely pointless for me.)