Hi there. I have a need to be able to tell eclipse not to use an (UNIX)
invisible file name for it's project file and settings. Because
'.project' is, by definition, invisible, when I try to use tools to mount
our source code tree on our Unix server, anything starting with a '.' is
invisible. This causes odd and inconsistent behaviour within Eclipse. It
is able to create the '.project' file, for instance, but is unable to read
or write to it.
I cannot find this resource in any externalized file (so far, at least)
and I am hoping that it was not hard-coded (GASP!). While I am searching
for where this string is located in the Eclipse source, I thought I would
ask if there is a way I can modify this string easily.
I realize that if used completely within an Unix framework or completely
within a Windows framework that this would not be a problem, but
unfortunately for a lot of Enterprise implementations, cross-platform
usability is essential. Not to mention that hard-coding a resource name
is REALLY bad programming practice ;-)
If anyone knows of a good way to change this string withing Eclipse, I
would greatly appreciate it.