I've been searching to no avail for a tweak that would enable Eclipse's editor window to scroll down N lines further below the edited file's last line. Such behavior is supported in:
IntelliJ IDE
VIM (by setting 'set scrolloff=10' for example, enabling you to scroll 10 lines further below the last line)
Thanks in advance,
amnong
Sorry, you can't. See this question.
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Atom has exact behavior that I want, it just highlights a file w/o expanding folders and w/o scrolling.
See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/82828
As of v1.43 vscode will only scroll to a file if it was not previously visible - so maybe that is a partial solution. It will still open folders and scroll if it is off-screen for the explorer. But at least it is of some improvement hopefully for you.
also see this setting:
explorer.autoReveal which will turn off the autoReveal feature completely.
Is there a way to enable (like in other text editors) the vertical (normally doted) lines that marks/guides you where for example an "if"/method/etc opens and closes?
Thanks.
IMHO there is no such setting/preferences were provided by eclipse. You can try this Edit Box plugin. Which colors every blocks in code.
When I use Find/Replace in Eclipse (Helios Service Release 2), it does not find the words above my current location even it reaches to the end of file and I have to set Direction to Backward.
I remember the eclipse (maybe indigo) was returning to the beginning of file when it reached to the end.
Is there any setting for this?
As you have already found the answer. Just adding the official page which describes this feature in eclipse.There is a wrap search option for this.
From the docs:-
Select the Wrap Search checkbox if you want the dialog to continue
from the top of the file once the bottom is reached (if you find /
replace in Selected Lines only, then this option applies to those
lines only)
Below is the screen shot for the same:-
According to the greg-449's answer: There is the 'Wrap search' option on the Find/Replace dialog itself.
See attached screen shot below. You also hear a DING when the search wraps over to the beginning of the file.
http://www.screencast.com/t/7ss2li9Ah
I have Eclipse 3.7.1 classic, with added Android plugin and HTML editor plugin.
If I have a long line of text in the HTML editor and scroll the horizontal scrollbar to where I want to be, when I place the cursor there and start to type, after a short pause it keeps resets the horizontal scrollbar to the far left. It doesn't do it all the time, but it is frequent enough to be annoying.
Why is Eclipse doing this, and how can I stop it?
Not really an answer but I have the same Problem since yesterday. I don't know the cause or any solution but ende up splitting all my lengthy strings using either "\" or "+". That "fixed" the problem and resulted and better readability of the code.
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In my case this started happening after installing the Coffee Bytes Java Folding extension/plugin, and eventually it just annoyed me so much I turned it off...and the scroll jumping stopped.
It was a shame because I wanted folding of 'Regions' like in .Net and that extension gave me that ability. I've not looked for an alternative yet, but anyway I'm rambling - see if you have this extension enabled under Preferences > Java > Editor > Folding.
When this happens to me, the problem is that I'm not steady enough in my line selection. So I'll briefly be selecting two lines of input. And when the other line of input is shorter or even empty, it resets to the rightmost edge of that line (which if empty is the far left). Being very careful when moving horizontally can work but is difficult to maintain. Perhaps turning down the mouse sensitivity would help.
Searching for "eclipse line wrap" found that Alt Shift Y turns line wrap on and off. There also seems to be a button on the toolbar. See Does Eclipse have line-wrap for more details.
As others have noted, changing so that the lines aren't wider than the window also fixes this. But when you're in a situation where someone else sets the line length, toggling line wrap can be a quick and easy solution to this problem.
This of course assumes that you are having the same problem as me and not something caused by a plugin or other issue.
When running Toggle Comment on one or more lines of code, Eclipse adds the comment (//) at the beginning of the line. Is it possible to have Eclipse add the line comment where the code is indented at instead?
This can be fixed by running Source > Format but it would be nice if it can be done automatically when Toggling Comment.
A workaround solution is to have Eclipse do the formatting automatically: you can enable this through the "Save Action" preference.