[news.eclipse.newcomer] Using eclipse without a Project

[chrisstocktonaz@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Stockton)]

Hello,

I work on many many projects using eclipse, in a wide variety of 
languages. Most common being PHP and C/C++. I installed PDT and noticed I 
am forced to create "projects" in order to view files etc. which liters my 
subversion respo repositories itories with some eclipse specific files 
etc. I Know I could commit and work around this but here is my idea:

I can instead of having "Project Explorer" have "File Explorer" where I 
just browse my file systems tree, opening whatever files I may need. Some 
may be to a library in a completely different repository then I might need 
to edit some C  somewhere, then finally a web interface, all in different 
repos perhaps even using different source control (git, svn, cvs).

Basically I just want to remove the coupling to projects, its okay if I 
lose some features I just want to be able to quickly edit files with 
decent syntax highlighting, which surprisingly is hard to find these days 
(many of the linux ide/editors are just bad).

I know this chances it less from a IDE to a Editor... and if someone has a 
suggestions on workflow/managing a variety of projects let me know. I 
basically have /home/chris/source/(30-60 directories) some served through 
apache locally, others nightly builds synced, etc.

I appreciate any ideas, and sorry for the rather long email.

-Chris