Pasting a CVS URL
There are a great many features in Eclipse that I take for granted. One is the handy way that the "Add CVS Repository" wizard handles CVS URLs. The wizard is opened from the "CVS Repositories" view, by selecting menu item "New > Repository location…".
When you first see the wizard, it looks like you have to cut and paste the different bits of your CVS URL into the different fields.
However, if you just paste your URL into the first field, it automagically parses the bits out and populates all the fields appropriately. For example, pasting the CVS URL, ":pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/org.eclipse", fills in the fields as follows:
I don’t do this very often, but it’s sure handy when I do…
January 25th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Yup, it’s a good tip. Feel free to post it onto the EclipseZone Tips’n'Tricks forum if you want
You can also past snippets of Java code into an Eclipse Java project, too. So if you were to paste:
— 8< ---
package com.example.hello;
public class World {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println(”Hello, World!”);
}
}
— 8< ---
then you’d have a runnable example, just like that
January 25th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
On Eclipse 3.3 you can just paste it directly on CVS Repositories view.
See: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=157250