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LooMeenin
LooMeenin

Reputation: 818

Eclipse syntax coloring settings gone.

I use customized syntax coloring for my Eclipse editor and it has reverted back to the default settings. This is the second time in a couple weeks that it has happened. Any ideas as to why this is happening or how I can get my custom settings back? I have a very specific coloring scheme that I like to use and it takes forever to manually set!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 177

Answers (2)

WesternGun
WesternGun

Reputation: 12728

Sometimes simply import/export would not be enough, so you may need a list of .pref files where the syntax coloring settings are stored. What I have here is not complete and I just list what I use and I hope it helps.

(I process .java, .jsp, .xml, js and .properties files.)

You can find them by searching .pref files in your workspace. Remember to adjust your searching options to look into subfolders.

org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.ui.workbench.prefs
org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.jst.jsp.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.wst.html.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.ant.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.datatools.sqltools.sqleditor.prefs
org.eclipse.debug.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.php.ui.prefs
com.adobe.flexide.mxml.core.prefs
org.python.pydev.prefs
com.adobe.flexide.as.core.prefs
com.adobe.flexide.css.core.prefs
org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.ui.prefs
org.epic.perleditor.prefs
org.eclipse.cdt.ui.prefs

You may copy them when you finish adjusting your syntax coloring settings. When needed, search .pref again to get access to their locations, and restore your settings by copying the lines with color code, in order to avoid unpredictable side effect. As I can see this is the only way, inconvenient buy effective.

Upvotes: 1

kuriouscoder
kuriouscoder

Reputation: 5582

Are you switching across workspaces? As I understand eclipse preferences are stored in .settings/ present in workspace's root directory.

I export eclipse preferences and import it when I switch workspaces. Another cool trick I found is to close projects when I do not use them.

Eclipse official link on how to export preferences:

http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftimpandexp.htm

Upvotes: 1

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