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Free Plugins To Beef Up Eclipses Text Editing Capabilities? [message #848722] Wed, 18 April 2012 14:13 Go to next message
Steve _____ is currently offline Steve _____Friend
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I'm new to Eclipse. I have been impressed by it enough to begin devoting 30 min a day to learning it thoroughly via reading the help documentation.

However, I have been finding Eclipse to be a bit lacking in text editing power.

I was wondering if there were any free plugin to beef up its text editing feature. Some examples of desire features would be:

- search/replacing only a selection
- search/replacing only on a block (rectangle, column ) selection
- the ability to insert columns of text
- the ability to select a columnar space and fill it with a list of numbers
Re: Free Plugins To Beef Up Eclipses Text Editing Capabilities? [message #848909 is a reply to message #848722] Wed, 18 April 2012 17:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Russell Bateman is currently offline Russell BatemanFriend
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On 2012.04.18 8:13, Steve _____ wrote:
> I'm new to Eclipse. I have been impressed by it enough to begin devoting
> 30 min a day to learning it thoroughly via reading the help documentation.
> However, I have been finding Eclipse to be a bit lacking in text editing
> power.
> I was wondering if there were any free plugin to beef up its text
> editing feature. Some examples of desire features would be:
>
> - search/replacing only a selection
> - search/replacing only on a block (rectangle, column ) selection
> - the ability to insert columns of text
> - the ability to select a columnar space and fill it with a list of numbers

Real editing power is only to be had using Vim. Check out eclim for
Eclipse and bite the vi bullet.
Re: Free Plugins To Beef Up Eclipses Text Editing Capabilities? [message #849189 is a reply to message #848722] Thu, 19 April 2012 00:27 Go to previous message
Steve _____ is currently offline Steve _____Friend
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It isn't perfect, but I found several of the text editing features I was interested in while searching for a column editing plugin for eclipse:

columns4eclipse.sourceforge.net
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