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Controlling the number of characters shown in editor tabs [message #1396760]

Tue, 08 July 2014 18:53

Ian Leslie

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Registered: July 2009

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Back in the Eclipse 3.0 days there was a plug-in customization feature you could use to control the truncation of files names done in the editor tabs: org.eclipse.ui/EDITOR_MINIMUM_CHARACTERS=80

This no longer works in eclipse 4. I have been reading about the CSS customization that is allowed now but I cannot find any mention of controlling the tab name truncation of open Java files.

My goal is to be able to read the full class name in the editor tabs for classes like this:

| SystemBuilderFileFinder.java | SystemBuilderPrimativeTypesPackage.java | SystemModelImpl.java

Instead of the default that looks like this:
| SystemBuilde... | SystemBuilde... | SystemModel...

How can this be accomplished in the Eclipse 4.4?

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Re: Controlling the number of characters shown in editor tabs [message #1397428 is a reply to message #1396760]

Wed, 09 July 2014 18:11

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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On 07/08/2014 02:53 PM, Ian Leslie wrote:
> Back in the Eclipse 3.0 days there was a plug-in customization feature
> you could use to control the truncation of files names done in the
> editor tabs: org.eclipse.ui/EDITOR_MINIMUM_CHARACTERS=80

This is not yet supported in Eclipse 4.x. Please open a bug at
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Platform&component=UI

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Paul Webster
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