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Setting the "New text file line delimiter" preference [message #1717733]

Wed, 16 December 2015 11:40

Tim Schmid

Messages: 3
Registered: December 2015

Junior Member

I'm currently working on an Oomph-Setup in which I want to set the preference "New text file line delimiter"("Preferences" -> "General" -> "Workspace" -> "New text file line delimiter") to "Other: Windows" so a Unix user wouldn't mess up code with a Unix line separator.
I'm trying to achieve this by the following preference-task:

<setupTask
xsi:type="setup:PreferenceTask"
id="preferences.general.workspace.lineDelimiter"
key="/instance/org.eclipse.core.runtime/line.separator"
value="\r\n">
<description>New text file line delimiter</description>
</setupTask>

I attached the result here.
index.php/fa/24340/0/

Somehow Eclipse doesn't get that and when I start the Eclipse-installation the second time, it escapes the line delimiter to "\\r\\n".

What did I forget/do wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Tim.

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Re: Setting the "New text file line delimiter" preference [message #1717804 is a reply to message #1717733]

Wed, 16 December 2015 19:48

Andreas Graf

Messages: 211
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Tim,

did you try recording the preference change with the Oomph tooling and see what it suggests?

Andreas

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Re: Setting the "New text file line delimiter" preference [message #1717862 is a reply to message #1717804]

Thu, 17 December 2015 12:45

Ed Merks

Messages: 33216
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Andreas,

Yes that should work. It's hard to create this manually because the
cell editor will normalize the line feed conventions so that it's very
hard if the whole purpose is to specify a string to set the line feed
convention using the literal characters. If you want to do this
manually, keep in mind that ${0x0} through ${0x1F} can be used as
variables that expand to the control characters that are otherwise hard
to enter manually.

On 16/12/2015 8:48 PM, Andreas Graf wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> did you try recording the preference change with the Oomph tooling and
> see what it suggests?
>
> Andreas
>

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

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Re: Setting the "New text file line delimiter" preference [message #1717967 is a reply to message #1717862]

Fri, 18 December 2015 09:39

Tim Schmid

Messages: 3
Registered: December 2015

Junior Member

Hey everyone,

recording it with the Oomph recorder didn't work for me (Eclipse was still escaping it after the first startup, but maybe I just did something wrong).
I fixed it with a resource creation of the preference file now.
The task looks as followed:

<setupTask
xsi:type="setup:ResourceCreationTask"
id="preferences.general.workspace.lineDelimiter"
content="eclipse.preferences.version=1
line.separator=\r\n"
targetURL="${workspace.location|uri}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.core.runtime.prefs"/>
</setupTask>

Regards and thanks for the help,
Tim.

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