Posts Tagged ‘IDE’

Importing Color Schemes Cleanly into Eclipse

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Eclipse, for any Java developer, is a tool that is almost as essential for developing Java application as the Java docs itself. The compiler even. With its huge plug-in set and ability to do almost anything you want automatically, it is no surprise why you will probably find this IDE in where where Java is developed.

Then you start using it. One of my main complaints about Eclipse is that there is no way to export the color scheme in use without exporting with it other computer-specific settings. I don’t want to export which specific JRE location to use because it won’t be the same on a Mac and Windows. Nor do I want to export other settings, probably having to do with plugi-ns installed. And I especially don’t want another user’s recently used workspace locations. So what do you do?

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