Tuesday, July 26, 2011

All I want from Eclipse now

The only things which I now want from Eclipse which I dont have are:

- a search toolbar (like Visual Studio has) so that I dont have to open a window in order to search.
- the ability to split the code editor into panes so that I can view two different sections of a file at once (again, like VS has).

I think the search toolbar is in the most recent Eclipse version. Should I try it?? When I go to http://www.eclipse.org/ and click on "Eclipse for Java developers", I see that they have my verison (Helios) but they also have Indigo above it. Maybe this is the new version with new features that I want??

It was actually hard to find a good description of changes. One blogger stated that he had installed Indigo and didn't see much difference. Finally, I was given this link:
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2FwhatsNew%2Fplatform_whatsnew.html

Many items made no sense to me (cuz I am not an advanced user of course). But here is what did seem useful:
  • Back/Forward editor navigation buttons
Ha! That was it for me. Guess that means I am no hurry to try this. Also, my searches for people who were able to use the Android plugin with Indigo were mixed....

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