Tasks

• Running Eclipse
• Upgrading Eclipse
• Working with perspectives
  • Switching between perspectives
  • Specifying the default perspective
  • Opening perspectives
  • Changing where perspectives open
  • Configuring perspectives
  • Saving a user defined perspective
  • Deleting a user defined perspective
  • Resetting perspectives
• Working with views and editors
  • Opening views
  • Moving and docking views
  • Rearranging tabbed views
  • Creating fast views
  • Working with fast views
  • Opening files for editing
  • Associating editors with file types
  • Editing files outside the Workbench
  • Tiling editors
  • Maximizing a view or editor
• Customizing the Workbench
  • Rearranging the main toolbar
  • Changing the key bindings
  • Changing fonts and colors
  • Changing the placement of the tabs
  • Controlling single and double click behavior
• Working with projects, folders and files
  • Creating a project
  • Closing projects
  • Deleting projects
  • Creating a folder
  • Creating a file
  • Creating linked resources
  • Moving resources
  • Copying resources
  • Renaming resources
  • Deleting resources
  • Viewing resources properties
• Navigating and finding resources
  • Finding a resource quickly
  • Searching for files
  • Searching for text within a file
  • Sorting resources in the Navigator view
  • Showing or hiding files in the Navigator view
  • Narrowing the scope of the Navigator view
  • Linking the Navigator view to the active editor
• Bookmarks, tasks and other markers
  • Creating a bookmark within a file
  • Creating a bookmark for an entire file
  • Deleting a bookmark
  • Adding line items in the Tasks view
  • Associating a task with a resource
  • Deleting tasks
  • Filtering the Tasks view
  • Automatically fixing problems
• Comparing resources
  • Setting preferences for comparing files
  • Understanding the comparison
  • Merging changes in the compare editor
• Working with local history
  • Comparing resources with the local history
  • Replacing a resource with local history
  • Restoring deleted resources from local history
  • Setting local history preferences
• Importing
  • Importing existing projects
  • Importing resources from the file system
  • Importing resources from a ZIP file
• Exporting
  • Exporting resources to the file system
  • Exporting resources to a ZIP file
• Building resources
  • Performing builds automatically
  • Performing builds manually
  • Saving resources automatically before a manual build
  • Changing build order
  • Running external tools
  • Running Ant buildfiles
    • Modifying the Ant classpath
    • Using a different version of Ant
    • Adding new Ant tasks and types
• Using the help system
  • Accessing context-sensitive help
  • Accessing and navigating online help
  • Searching online help
  • Setting help fonts and colors for accessibility
  • Changing the web browser used by the help system
• Working in the team environment with CVS
  • Working with a CVS repository
    • Creating a CVS repository location
    • Connecting and configuring CVS with SSH
    • Password Management
    • Discarding a CVS repository location
    • Refreshing the CVS Repositories View
    • Discovering branch and version tags
    • Changing the properties of a CVS repository location
    • Changing the encoding of a CVS repository location
    • Setting the content type of a file extension
  • Working with projects shared with CVS
    • Enabling the CVS resource decorations
    • Sharing a new project using CVS
    • Project checked out with another CVS tool
    • Checking out a project from a CVS repository
    • Checking out a module from a CVS repository
    • Checking out a folder into an existing project
    • Disconnecting a project from CVS
    • Setting the CVS keyword substitution mode
    • Filtering in the CVS Resource History view
    • Changing the sharing of a project
  • Synchronizing with the repository
    • Updating
    • Committing
    • Version control life cycle: adding and ignoring resources
      • Creating a global pattern
      • Authoring the CVS .cvsignore file
      • Overriding or removing resource ignore patterns
    • Resolving conflicts
    • Branching
    • Merging from a branch
    • Viewing a file's revision history
  • Versioning
    • Creating a version of a project
    • Versioning projects in the repository
  • Comparing resources with repository versions
  • Working with patches
  • Replacing resources in the workbench
  • Finding out who's working on what: watch/edit
  • Finding out who's to blame with Annotate
  • Quick Diff: Showing changes in a text editor
  • Changing CVS team settings
  • Restoring deleted files from the repository
  • Reverting a branch to a previous version
  • Moving version tags
  • Running the CVS command-line client outside of Eclipse
• Updating features with the update manager
  • Inspecting the current configuration
  • Restoring a saved configuration
  • Installing new features with the update manager
  • Enable, disable, uninstall a feature
  • Update policy
  • Automatic update scheduler