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.
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I found this properties editor that seems perfect, I have a lot of translations to maintain. I found this editor that seems to be able to handle all languages at the same time, which is perfect for me: https://github.com/essiembre/eclipse-rbe
I managed to install the plugin, but now I have to confess that I'm way out of my league. Stumbling around in the dark...
How to start it, how to use it?
Or is there a better way to maintain properties in multiple languages?
I also have to maintain an application with a multi language user interface.
First of all I also started the attempt to use eclipse plugins for editing Java resource bundles but I am also failed... :(
After some test's with different editors I decided to work with JLokalize.
My way of proceeding:
Step (Switch to the package explorer of your Domino Designer)
Step (Select a folder for export to file system, e.g. Custom Controls or XPages)
Step (Set filter types to *.properties)
Step (Finish the export to your filesystem (or a network file share, if someone else should do the translation work))
Open and edit the resource files with JLokalize
After finishing your translation work you could import the translated files (e.g. *_en.properties for files translated to english) in your application.
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.
I have been using eclipse for a few years. I typically use just ONE workspace and have several projects for all of my perforce branches. I close the ones I'm not working on, open the one I am interested in.
The caveat to this approach is that I have to manually close empty editor tabs every time I do this.
Am I approaching this the wrong way?
I'm really not a fan of having multiple workspaces as then I have to setup proejct variables for each new workspace.
Is there a way to associate the currently open set of editor tabs to the current project(s)?
Thank you for your time.
-Dennis
Is there a way to associate the currently open set of editor tabs to the current project(s)?
AFAIK, no. However, you can associate the editors to a task by using Eclipse Mylyn. This way when you switch to an old task, it will set the editors and package exlorer to only show what you worked on the last time.
If you are working with defects from Jira or Bugzilla or a few other systems, these defects can automatically be imported into mylyn and will allow for very easy context switching.
If you dont get tasks from one of the supported repositories you'd have to manually create the tasks, but then just creating a dummy task for each project you work on would create the effect you are after.
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.)
I have the (mis)fortune of having a large project source-base in which I am working primarily on PHP and JavaScript. I have to have the full project area as the project root in Eclipse, but unfortunately this includes several directories that drive the validation built into WST/DLTK/etc. nuts.
I have tried disabling all validators in the project properties. I have gone into the validators one at a time and added rules to the "Exclude Group" set to exclude the specific folders. I have removed the folders from the PHP build path in the project properties. And yet, my Problems view/tab is still littered with thousands of red flags that stem mostly from a folder that we use to keep copies of external elements (Apache, PHP, etc.). You know, typical "have a copy of the specific versions we currently use" sort of thing.
The signal-to-noise ratio is so bad that I'm unable to use the view at all, which is a shame. If I'm not going to have the benefits of the IDE, I might as well be using vim for this (I use it for other stuff, but for this codebase a good IDE is a better choice, providing I can get it to work). It seems to me that it would be an obvious feature to be able to right-click a folder in a project and select "Exclude from Validation", but alas there is no such feature. Is there another way to get the validators (PHP, HTML, etc.) to ignore the folders I need ignored?
Tried solution;
Right click project
Select properties
Select validation
Check Enable Project specific settings
On the XML Validator row, click the '...' button
Select Exclude Gruop
Click Add rule
Select 'Folder or file name'
Click Next
Select files or folder which are not validated.
Click Finish
Click OK
Click OK
This solved my problem. Because eclipse validation gives error for generated GWT files.
Best regards.
I came upon this question while looking for the same answer. I will list the steps I did here and hopefully it will help someone in the future.
I am using Eclipse 4.1 and I do the following to exclude validation for specific xml files. I am sure if you configure the different validators it will work for other files as well.
Go to Preferences -> Validation
Find the Validator you wish to change and select settings (not all of the validators have settings, hopefully yours do).
In the settings you can add an Exclude Group where you can add a rule to specify to exclude the validator for specific extensions, folder or file name, project nature, facet or content type.
I have Eclipse for PHP Developers and I was dealing with the same issue.
In addition tot he excellent answers above, I have one more suggestion.
My first recommendation is not to use Aptana unless you actually want those validators (as they are nearly impossible to turn off from my experience).
Beyond that, go to File -> Properties -> Builders, and deselect "Validation" and "Script Builder" and "JavaScript Validator".
So far it's helped speed up some operations tremendously.
I also recommend disabling "Automatic Build". Because you're using PHP, the odds that you actually need it to build anything if you don't want validation is slim.
In the main menu, go to Project and uncheck "Build Automatically". You will want to build your project every now and then by right clicking on the project and selecting "Build Project".
All the above steps have helped me get the basic editor, which is exactly what I wanted.
I used to exclude resources from validation via project specific Exclude Group (as the most answer here suggests). But in case anyone is still having problems with disabling validation for a specified folder in 2014 - just mark the folder resource as Derived:
This should disable validation for that folder.
If you are using EGIT you might also want to disable automatic inclusion of derived resources in .gitignore:
It is not really possible to select a directory, at least under Windows.
After having pressed Preferences->Validation->Settings->Add Exclude Group->Add Rule->Folder or filename->Browse Folder->(selecting some directory)->[OK]
The "Browse for folder" dialog is being closed, with the "File or folder" field staying empty.
I had the same problem with the web app i'm developping.
I ended up disabling automatic build, and building once a day (Project->Build automatically), that way i still get the benefits of code completion from libraries, while speeding up the program on older computers.
I found in the project properties there is a Builders category. In the list of builders I had a JavaScript Builder. I deselected this builder and all my annoying javascript validation woes went away.
this worked for me:
Properties > Builders section and unchecking the corresponding box. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317833
seems to be a bug in some versions of eclipse.
There are more gloabal validation parameters. You can suspend all validation (or only the ones you don't need) by going to:
Window > Preferences > Validation.
Here, check the box "Suspend all validators".
Alternatively, uncheck the validators you don't need from the list below.
A full build will be requested which might take some time. But Eclipse will run a lot faster afterwards [But without validation of course]
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Solution.
Go configure what's displayed in the Problems View like lothar proposed, create new custom filter and in "Scope" area choose "On working set". Now press the button right below this option to configure what working set would it be: in working set selection pop-up hit the "New" button and mark all your project files EXCEPT those you want to exclude from validation. You might want to save this working set under convenient name, like "No_Validation_Set".
Summary:
1) working set excluding problematic files.
2) custom Problems View filter to operate on this set.
Issues:
when adding new files to project you need to update your working set, so they are validated too.
When I excluded files from validation for the project, my setting didn't seem to be recognised until I restarted Eclipse and cleaned the project.