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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 25387

How do I manually edit eclipse code formatting preferences?

Due to a bug in Eclipse, every time I try to change the Code Formatting preferences, Eclipse crashes. Thus, I cannot edit code formatting preferences via Eclipse's built in window editor. These are workspace specific preferences. Where can I find the file to edit the preferences manually?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 424

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111217

It looks like the code format profiles are stored in the workspace .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs file

This is a Java properties format file. The code formatter settings are in the org.eclipse.jdt.ui.formatterprofiles property. The value is an XML object. This is going to be hard to edit!

Upvotes: 2

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