Extras for Eclipse: Neon Update

On July 6, 2016, Posted by , In Eclipse, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Extras for Eclipse: Neon Update

A change in Eclipse Neon made it necessary to update Extras for Eclipse. Unfortunately, the Toggle Full Screen command uses the same key binding, Alt+F11, as the Launch Dialog (see this bug for the details). Hence the key binding for the Launch Dialog had to be changed to Shift+F11. We…

Terminate and Relaunch in Eclipse

On April 19, 2016, Posted by , In Eclipse, By , , With 1 Comment

A few days ago a new feature was committed to the Eclipse repository: Terminate and Relaunch. When enabled, Eclipse will terminate all currently running processes of a launch configuration before relaunching it. This feature is particularly useful if the process to launch holds a unique system resource. For example, a…

Announcing Extras for Eclipse

Over the last months, I wrote some extensions for the Eclipse IDE that I found were missing and could be implemented with reasonable effort. The outcome is Extras for Eclipse, a collection of small extensions for the Eclipse IDE, which include a launch dialog, a JUnit status bar, a launch…