Top 10 Customization of Eclipse Settings

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:

1. add -showlocation to the eclipse startup command line: show workspace location in the title bar
2. disable the heuristik settings for the indexer : fixing the eclipse index
3. disable build (if required) for the debugger: speeding up the debug launch in codewarrior
4. using spaces and not tabs: spaces vs. tabs in eclipse
5. highlight the selected line : color makes the difference!
6. configuring more hovers : hovering and debugging
7. enabling static software analysis : free static code analysis with eclipse
8. processor expert expert settings: enabling the expert level in processor expert
9. custom dictionary settings: eclipse spell checker
10. 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:

1. change my preferences using the menu window > preferences
2. use the menu file > export > general > preferences and save the settings in a file:
   

   file export

3. switch to the new workspace
4. use the menu file > import > general > preferences to import the settings from the file:
   

   file import

happy customizing