location of Eclipse configuration file

[coltrane]

can someone tell me where Eclipse maintains its configuration file.
If I customize my ide, such as custom keys, I would like to backup the
file.
I can't seem to find the file.
It's probably something simple like ThisIsTheConfigurationFile.xml

thanks

john

 

[Hendrik Maryns]

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coltrane schreef:

can someone tell me where Eclipse maintains its configuration file.
If I customize my ide, such as custom keys, I would like to backup the
file.
I can't seem to find the file.
It's probably something simple like ThisIsTheConfigurationFile.xml

There is a whole hidden directory in your workspace. On Linux, it is
..preferences, on Windows, I'm not sure.

For Eclipse related questions, see
news://news.eclipse.org:119/eclipse.newcomer

H.
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[Thomas Fritsch]

can someone tell me where Eclipse maintains its configuration file.
If I customize my ide, such as custom keys, I would like to backup the
file.
I can't seem to find the file.

Maybe it is because Eclipse likes to use hidden files (file name beginning
with "."). On Unix/Linux use "ls -a" to see them.

It's probably something simple like ThisIsTheConfigurationFile.xml

It is not so simple :-(

Project-spanning overall-settings are stored in directories
<yourWorksapceDirectory>/.metadata/.plugins/<plugInName>/...

Project-specific configurations are stored in
<yourWorkspaceDirectory>/<yourProject>/.project
<yourWorkspaceDirectory>/<yourProject>/.classpath
and others.

 

[Hendrik Maryns]

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coltrane schreef:

There is a whole hidden directory in your workspace. On Linux, it is
.preferences, on Windows, I'm not sure.

/me knocks himself on the head after seeing the correct answer:

Of course, the directory is called .metadata, not .preferences.

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[coltrane]

thanks

I cannot believe the way these preferences are maintained!
Oh well, there is a reason for everything.

thanks again

john

 

[James McGill]

thanks

I cannot believe the way these preferences are maintained!
Oh well, there is a reason for everything.

thanks again

john

I spend a lot of time re-doing my workspace prefs for things like code
generation comments, and I've completely given up on customizing the
editor colors -- I'd really like to have a black background and bright
text for everything, but, I got sick of having to change it every time I
updated eclipse, and for every new workspace. And there are just too
many things in the GUI world that assume your background will be a light
color (white), and that it's okay to display dark things on the
foreground. I understand the whole "paper" idiom, but on a computer
display, I greatly prefer the low-energy state of a dark background.
But usually this is impossible, because somewhere, there's always
something hardcoded as a black foreground. Or, as is the case for
Eclipse, there are just too many different things that have to be
adjusted.

 

[coltrane]

the settings like to stay consistent are my key combinations and tab
settings

thanks