Next Door Hacker » programming http://www.nextdoorhacker.com I'm just your friendly neighborhood hacker Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:44:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Eclipse has block selection? Awesome! err.. finally http://www.nextdoorhacker.com/2009/12/eclipse-has-block-selection-awesome-err-finally/ http://www.nextdoorhacker.com/2009/12/eclipse-has-block-selection-awesome-err-finally/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:45:11 +0000 Prasanna http://www.nextdoorhacker.com/?p=203 Just noticed this “block selection” feature in eclipse. What this lets you do is select a block of text instead of just lines. Suppose you wanted to copy

1 class Hello:
2        def __init__(self):
3                  print “hello”

If you wanted to copy this, I’d put in vim and run :%s/^\(\d\+\)\s //g [Double check this]
to remove the line numbers or depending on how much I’d like to tinker, perl.. Now I can just do it in eclipse. Something I’ve wanted to do since my pre-regexp days..

Notepad++ has had this feature since forever, but its nice to see this in eclipse finally.
http://www.vasanth.in/2009/03/31/eclipse-tip-block-selection-mode/

Granted, it doesn’t really really add much for me personally, I’ve heard a bunch of people ditching eclipse for Notepad++, so here you go!
Cheers!

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Now, of course I had this crazy idea to work on IRC again which soon enough turned to cloning a popular chat client. Now, I needed to make some user interfaces. After trying to do it old fashioned way in Eclipse for about an hour, I decided to download Netbeans 6.5.1 and give it a go. What I discovered was that I can import my eclipse projects

from File>Import Project > Eclipse Project

You give the eclipse project location in the workspace and your Netbeans project location

After you work with it for a bit, for example work on making a GUI, you can just right click the project and say resynchronize with Eclipse

You can safely go back to eclipse and work more (after doing refresh in Eclipse of course)

This works both ways.

Enjoy hacking in Java. :)

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