Bug 520552 - Provide export and import for save actions & xml editor settings & more
Summary: Provide export and import for save actions & xml editor settings & more
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 enhancement with 4 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2017-08-04 06:38 EDT by amiDDima CLA
Modified: 2017-08-04 06:38 EDT (History)
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Description amiDDima CLA 2017-08-04 06:38:59 EDT 
As in Preferences->Java->Code Style->
- Clean Up
- Code Templates
- Formatter
it would be very nice to have export and import functionality also for
- Preferences->Java->Editor->Save Actions
- Preferences->Java->Editor->Syntax Coloring
- Preferences->Java->Appearance->Type Filters
- Preferences->XML->XML Files->Editor

Also possibly this could be just extended to
- Preferences->JavaScript->Editor->Save Actions
too.

Considering the volume of work to configure things especially "Save Actions" are very huge and would be the most important point to implement!

In other words the real problem is the fact that eclipse workspace (without projects, just ".metadata") contains not only the settings but also "temporary" stuff like indexing or cache files, especially the files are often managed by plugins itself, so reusing of workspace is kind of risky and spamming.