[pmonks]

G’day,

I use multiple Eclipse workspaces for multiple types of project (one per client, one for personal projects, one for each open source project I’m a committer on etc. etc.) and to keep my preferences in sync I always export my preferences prior to switching workspaces, then import them as soon as Eclipse has restarted with the new workspace. This is the only process I’ve found which comes close to guaranteeing that my preferences remain in sync across all workspaces, no matter where I change them.

Unfortunately it appears that plugin preferences (including MyEclipse) aren’t picked up by this process, so I find myself manually setting the same preferences over and over for each workspace.

Is there any way to copy all of MyEclipse’s preferences from one workspace to another?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Peter,
As long as you are exporting use “All preferences” your MyEclipse settings should be included in this process. If you have set project-specific settings (overridden your workbench default) those preferences will not be included in the export.

Are there particular settings in MyEclipse that are consistently being ignored? I can have the developers drill down to exactly those preferences and see why they aren’t getting exported/imported.

[pmonks]

G’day Riyad,

The thing I’ve customised most are the code styles (syntax colouring etc.), but if I open a workspace that doesn’t have my customised styles, import my saved preferences (exported from a workspace which does have my customised styles), my customised styles don’t seem to show up.

There is a chance that I haven’t been exporting as religiously as I should have, so let me do some more thorough testing to eliminate any chance of user error, then I’ll reply back to this thread with what I find.

Cheers,
Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Ahh Peter try and export your code style settings explicitly from the Code Style preference panel, I did that and keep the XML file handy in a well known location that I import right away into all my workspaces. Nothing more frustrating than hitting Format and having it bork your source files.

[pmonks]

Sorry I didn’t mean the Code Styles settings – I meant the [Language] Style settings (eg. CSS Style, JSP Style, XML Style etc. etc.). It’s those settings that I’m losing, and afaict there isn’t an individual export function for these options.

Cheers,
Peter

[pmonks]

I’m still seeing this issue, even when I’m religious about exporting my preferences from a correctly configured workspace and importing them into another workspace. Is this a known issue?

Cheers,
Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Peter,
I just reproduced this, the problem was I was trying to reproduce it using the source styles (margin width, formating options, etc.) and wasn’t able to, but you are correct the styles (colors) do seem to be ignored. I will file this as a bug ASAP.

[pmonks]

G’day Riyad,

Can you post the bug number here so that I can track it? This problem is driving me bananas.

Thanks,
Peter

[Riyad Kalla]

Our issue tracker is not public because we track other issues besides MyEclipse in it, so the number isn’t of any use.

Have you tried this with Eclipse 3.2 RC5 and MyEclipse 5.0 Milestone 1 yet? (setup in a separate area for testing only).

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