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3.4 New and Noteworthy
It’s that time of the year, when the summer finally kicks in here in Switzerland, and we all calm down and look back to what we have achieved in the last 12 months. It’s that time of the year when we have our, hopefully, last release candidate built and the release of Eclipse is only [...]
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Allow to move mouse into hover; or how to make it stick
If you are a user of our latest milestone build 3.4 M6a (you should!) you might have noticed that some of our hovers have changed their behavior: It is now possible to make them sticky by moving the mouse into the hover. This is much more than just a small enhancement: For us this is [...]
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3.4 M5 New and Noteworthy: The Breadcrumb
In M5 the good old Java editor will have something new in it: The Breadcrumb.
Breadcrumbs show the path to the element at the current cursor position:
You can read all the details about this feature (and of course others) in the 3.4 M5 New and Noteworthy. In this blog I want to talk about the motivation [...]
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JDT/UI and Platform/Text M5 plan items
We have several new features on our plans for M5.
Some of the more exciting features are:
Rich hovers (bug 200838): Rich hovers will provide ways to make a hover in the text editor sticky without the necessity to take your hand off the mouse. Rich hovers will also allow to contain links and/or [...]
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Text Templates 2
In the previous blog post, I have shown how to use and add templates through the UI. In this post, I’m going to show how to contribute templates and template variables through an extension point.
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Text Templates 1
One of our 3.4 plan items is improve template mechanism and offer a set of SWT templates. We’ve added this in 3.4 M2.
In this blog post I’ll describe how to use these new SWT templates and how to add your own templates, because templates can save you from typing the same chunk of code over [...]
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Hello world!
In this blog we discuss new features and APIs from the JDT/UI, JDT/Text and Platform/Text projects.
This is my first blog, so please bear with me. Although this is a team blog, it is planed, that I will write the blog entries, but I hope, that other team members, or even community members, will write blog [...]
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