Top 10 Customization of Eclipse Settings
Top 10 Customization of Eclipse Settings
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The great thing with Eclipse is that you can configure a lot. In general, I’m happy with most of the defaults in Eclipse and CodeWarrior. Here are my top 10 things I change in Eclipse to make it even better:
- Add -showlocation to the Eclipse startup command line: Show Workspace Location in the Title Bar
- Disable the Heuristik Settings for the Indexer: Fixing the Eclipse Index
- Disable Build (if required) for the debugger: Speeding up the Debug Launch in CodeWarrior
- Using spaces and not tabs: Spaces vs. Tabs in Eclipse
- Highlight the selected line: Color makes the difference!
- Configuring more hovers: Hovering and Debugging
- Enabling Static Software Analysis: Free Static Code Analysis with Eclipse
- Processor Expert Expert settings: Enabling the Expert Level in Processor Expert
- Custom dictionary settings: Eclipse Spell Checker
- Show Line numbers: Eclipse and Line Numbers
I don’t have to waste time to change the settings for each of my workspaces: After I have changed the settings, I can simply export and import them again into another workspace:
- Change my preferences using the menu Window > Preferences
- Use the menu File > Export > General > Preferences and save the settings in a file:
File Export
- Switch to the new workspace
- Use the menu File > Import > General > Preferences to import the settings from the file:
File Import
Happy Customizing 
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