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Fabian Röling
Fabian Röling

Reputation: 1356

What does "Enable debug mode" in Eclipse settings do?

In the Eclipse settings under General->Error Reporting there is the option "Enable debug mode". But what does it do? When I search for "Eclipse debug mode" I obviously only get results on how to debug programs with Eclipse, not about this option. I guess it creates more detailed log files?

(Or maybe more general: Is there a detailed explanation of every Eclipse option (at least for core and the normal packs from the official download page) somewhere?)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5001

Answers (2)

Andreas Sewe
Andreas Sewe

Reputation: 1638

Speaking as one of the committers from the Eclipse Automated Error Reporting Initiative (AERI), this option is there to help us, the developers of AERI, debug the error reporting itself.

Switching the General > Error Reporting > Enable debug mode option on causes every error that shows up in the Error Log to cause an “An Error Has Occurred” notification – even if the same error has already been reported from this Eclipse instance. Also, AERI explains how it reaches its decision whether to send the report via additional messages in the Error Log.

Unless you are contributing code to AERI or need the extra verbosity to send us a detailed bug report, you should leave that option switched off (the default).

Upvotes: 2

Markus Lausberg
Markus Lausberg

Reputation: 12257

Related to the tooltip "Disables recently seen filters and increases the logging output" i assume that this is for sending exceptions and other error to the eclipse-developer team directly.

In the same page you can adapt the error reporting configuration. When you install eclipse you get ask whether you want to support eclipse in sending errors to them. If you do not agree, this preference page helps to get it to work later on.

Upvotes: 0

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