Is there a way to create a hotkey to hide and show the entire bottom tab group? The one that normally contains Console, Problems, Servers and so on...
I want to have it a fastview but as far as I know this is only possible per tab within that group.
I want the entire group to appear on a hotkey and as a fast view.
I am hoping for a miracle here. Perhaps there is a plugin for this? Eclipse 3.4
Thanks!
If your goal is just to maximize editor space, you can double-click on an editor tab and it will grow to fill the entire window. Double-click again and it will restore back down, showing all the other view tab groups.
This might be an ok solution:
Minimise the tag group (minimise button on top left).
Whenever you want to access a view from that group use Cntrl+F7 - this brings up a view menu.
Hold down cntrl and keep hitting f7 to go to the view you want to display, let go. If the view was hidden it is now shown as a fast view.
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I want to achieve something during run time.
I have a customized editor plugin. Now, what I want is whenever someone opens this editor, there should be a view displayed in bottom folder no matter what the current perspective is.
What I meant from above is, say currently "Java" perspective is shown on active page , so whenever someone opens my custom editor, I want to add a view in bottom folder(where we see "Problems" tab). Similarly, for any current perspective, my view should get rendered as soon as my custom editor is opened.
I know about initial layout and adding a place holder view, but I can not add place holder to each and every perspective. I want this to work for any perspective opened.
Can someone please suggest workaround for this ?
Thanks in Advance !
Haven't found an option in the IDE to hide it, are there any configuration files that would do it? I never use it, and in my effort to optimize screen space with multiple tab groups, this would save me some pixels. :-P
Here's the bar in question:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/inwUM.png
I believe you are referring to the Diff Sidebar. To remove this use the menu item located at View > Show Diff Sidebar. This menu item is a toggled menu item so when it is active there is a check beside it.
I'm working in a file that's thousands of lines of code. I'm implementing an algorithm at line 700-ish. I frequently have to navigate away from those lines to check out the other methods in the file.
Navigating back to where I'm actually coding is usually a pain. If I could set a waypoint at line 700 and map a shortcut to it that would be great. It would also be nice to be able to do this on a file level too.
Is there any way to do this in Eclipse? If not, should there be?
I don't control the file so I can't break it up into smaller files/classes.
There's a Bookmark view in Eclipse that would probably work for this.
On any line of source (at least in the Java view), right click in the left hand tray. You'll see a menu pop up and an option called Bookmark. Select that and provide some kind of useful description that you'll remember.
Now, add the Bookmarks view to your perspective.
Click on Window
Select Show View
Select Other (at the bottom)
Select Bookmarks under General (or just enter Bookmarks in the search box).
You should now have the Bookmarks view in your perspective listing your bookmarks. Duble click on one of the bookmarks and it will take you right to it.
Hope that helps.
I'm trying to hide Eclipse menu bar to save some screen real estate. I found I can do this using perspectives but that would permanently take out the menu from that perspective. The behavior that I want to get is something along of auto-hide, so that the menu remains hidden until I hit ALT+F for example or any other ALT key combo.
Is there's a setting or a plugin that can do this?
Thanks!
This is just a work around. Create two perspectives.
First one named - With Menu.
Second one named - Without Menu.
In the "Without Menu" perspective remove all menu items and Save.
To create the effect of hiding and showing, switch between perspectives by using
Ctrl+F8.
Theres a fast view option- just right click the tab and select Fast View. It'll bring the entire window down to the eclipse taskbar. You can recover the window by just clicking on it's icon.
Source: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=56119
Have a look here Is there a Macro Recorder for Eclipse? You could set up the macro so respond to ALT+F possibly.
I could have sworn I saw it once before in a screencast where someone had the find/replace window docked in their Eclipse environment.
However looking through the list of options in "Window > Show" the closest thing I can find is the Search window.
I find that I use it quite a bit and with larger monitors these days I figure I could afford to have it open in my perspective all the time.
Is this possible?
Thanks.
One poor-man's workaround is to dock a view that you don't need in a part of Eclipse where you want the find/replace view and then place the find/replace dialog on top of that like this:
Clearly this is a huge kludge but it does work.
I am not sure about that, since Fast views are:
icons allowing users to quickly display different views that have been created as fast views
And the search/replace is a Dialog, not a View..
(source: bpsite.net)
(That Dialog box is not like Views, which support editors, also have their own menus. Some views also have their own toolbars.)
The help page mentions:
Fast views are hidden views that can be quickly opened and closed. They work like other views except they do not take up space in your Workbench window.
This might not be an exact answer for the question. But this works like a charm.
Press ctrl + j and keep typing...
Use ctrl + k to go on
Use shift key wherever required.
Use Edit > Incremental Find Next (Ctrl+J) or Edit > Incremental Find Previous (Ctrl+Shift+J) to enter the incremental find mode, and start typing the string to match. Matches are found incrementally as you type. The search string is shown in the status line. Press Ctrl+J or Ctrl+Shift+J to go to the next or previous match. Press Enter or Esc to exit incremental find mode.