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BentChainRing
BentChainRing

Reputation: 452

In Eclipse, Is there a way to change the 15 character limit on the open file names displayed in the editor tabs?

The source code I'm working with has many files where the first 15 characters of a file name are the same. When multiple files are open in Eclipse the tabs all look the same. I have searched online and not come up with any answers, including a vague reference on this site, where someone asked a similar question, but the suggestions more had to do with configuring the number of tabs, not the number of characters in the file name appearing on the tab.

As far as I can tell, the ability to configure this does not seem to appear in Preferences for Eclipse; but then again, I'm relatively new to it. I would like to have wider tabs, displaying the unique portion of the file name.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 221

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

No this can't be changed using a preference.

The width seems to be hard coded in the stack rendering code (org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.sw.StackRenderer) so it would require a custom renderer to change.

Upvotes: 1

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