Is it possible to create, a new file in eclipse without it being part of a project?
It's possible. If you create new file, select General and Untitled Text File.
For convenience, you can also create shortcut for that. I use Ctrl + N, Ctrl + N for that.
Doesn't look like it. This is a huge oversight by the Eclipse people :) What you can do is create a project in the New Project wizard, and then specify the same name as the folder (don't think it matters though). After that, you can create files in that directory using the project.
Another thing you can do is create an empty workspace project and then link to files outside of the workspace (New File Wizard > Advanced.. > Link to file in the file system).
Edit: as hollsk says, it's possible to drag the file in. In the newer versions of Eclipse, this will ask you if you want to make a link or a copy of the file, AFAIK. You can combine this with an empty project as mentioned.
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I have a folder hierarchy that looks like this:
- workspace
- some_folder
+ eclipse_project
Is it possible to open and view the hierarchy in the project explorer of Eclipse beginning at "some_folder," instead of at "eclipse_project?" If so, how is this accomplished? When I try importing, Eclipse obviously refuses to because the files in the outer folder are already in the workspace.
Or does this contradict the principle behind Eclipse and projects?
Thanks.
Or does this contradict the principle behind Eclipse and projects?
Yes, it does. The File menu does offer to let you Open File..., but whether it's supported by an editor and how much functionality is retained is entirely up to that editor. Some will flat-out fail.
As a workaround, you can create a New General->File, expand the Advanced section of the wizard, and set the new in-workspace file to link to the real file's physical on-disk location, as long as that location is not in some way under the workspace's location. Note that even this may not always be supported by extremely old editors.
Today I opened netbeans after a month of not using it, and when I opened it all my program tabs with file names were italicized. This makes it a class like println, but the classes I am working on are my own files, and now I can't edit it.
How can I make them read and write files again?
Italized file names mean that the files are read only. Are those files located on your computer or on a remote server? Did you have write access to project files? Do you have them as .java, .class, or .jar? To begin with right click on the tab, use select in projects and see what is selected.
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.
Alright, this has caused me enough grief. The answer may be dead simple, but I need some help.
I figured it would be simple to open an existing project in Eclipse, but I'm having quite a time actually making this work. I don't want to change where it's located. I don't want to pull a bunch of strings to get Eclipse to point to it. I just want to take the project directory from where it is now and open it in Eclipse.
Is there any way to do this?
Not sure that I entirely follow, but here's my general routine for creating projects in Eclipse.
I go to File > New > Project and
pick out what sort of project I
want, and hit Next.
I enter the name I want to use for
the project, and the path where I
want to store it. I never store
stuff in my workspace folder.
For projects with existing code, I
just put the path to the existing
folder, and Eclipse just imports the
code.
Hoping that answers your question, but if not let me know.
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.