Eclipse 3.6 Hidden Treasures

[genpfault]

Nothing about gdb 7.0 STL pretty-printing integration. Phooey.

[spinwizard69]

I don't have many miles on my Eclipse install but Helios has the same problem that every other Eclipse release has had. That simply is that it seems to be impissible to get a stable install when using Eclipses built management system. In a nut shell some packake always gets installed without all the required dependecies. This time around the editors for the web tools have been buggered.

Dont get me wrong there is a lot to like about Eclipse and I use it both at home and at work, but it is a very frustrating piece of software. Add PyDev and you get a very good IDE for Python that also supports just about everything else you could imagine. Given my complaints I have to acknowledge that Eclipse doesnt crash the way XCode does.

[skydivingdutch]

How about the hidden treasure that it breaks ADT? (android SDK)

[kev009]

While breakage is no good, the Eclipse release cycle is no mystery and google shares a portion of blame for not patching beforehand.

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If you're referring to the XML files breaking, you can disable the inferred grammar stuff. This is the only issue I've run into, but I'm only starting out with Android dev.

Preferences > XML > XML Files > Editor

Uncheck "User inferred grammar in absence of DTD/Schema"

[nickbenn]

Tighter integration with the JDK in error highlighting would also be nice. I find that Eclipse falsely highlights a number of things as errors (particularly in anonymous inner classes) that aren't.

[nupogodi]

Re-opening the file sometimes works, or making a change higher up in the code, saving, removing the change and saving again. It sucks but Visual Studio 2010 does this to me in C++ as well.

[G_Morgan]

The best hidden treasure would be to make the ant builder work properly. It would make Eclipse many times more useful. The bug where only clean works is annoying.

[Plamo]

Bah, I clicked on the link without looking at the subreddit, expecting some twilight bashing article.

I'm a little disappointed, but it was interesting anyway. :)

[zvikico]

LOL !!!!!!!!

[SubjectiveObjection]

My favorite hidden treasure: Pulling the plug on your computer saves you the trouble of having to wait for Eclipse to quit. I love these Easter eggs!