thebossman
thebossman

Reputation: 4698

Import Emacs Keyboard Configuration Into Eclipse?

In Eclipse, in the menu, I can go to Window -> Preferences -> Keys and set the Scheme to "Emacs." I can also click "Export" at the bottom-right hand side of the dialog to export a .CSV file containing a listing of my keyboard mappings.

How do I re-import this configuration into a different installation of Eclipse? The File -> Import option seems to neither support .CSV files or a specific keyboard configuration file.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2183

Answers (3)

Fernando Briano
Fernando Briano

Reputation: 7757

The key configuration is relative to each workspace. You can find your configuration files at your workspace directory:

workspace
  /.metadata
    /.plugins

I haven't figured out yet which of these files corresponds to your keyboard configuration. There's also a user configuration folder at your home folder (~/.eclipse in GNU/Linux systems). You'll probably find the right file somewhere over these directories.

Upvotes: 0

Adam Mika
Adam Mika

Reputation: 654

You could try exporting and importing all of your preferences

Export File->Export...->General->Preferences

Import File->Import...->General->Preferences

Upvotes: 5

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328556

Something that should work is to export all preferences and then import them in the other install. But I know no way to do that for the keyboard prefs alone.

I agree that it would make sense. I suggest you open a bug report against Eclipse. Maybe it really is a missing feature (or the solution is too simple and we don't see it).

Upvotes: 0

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