Eclipse 3.3M4 introduced a cool feature called “Show invisible whitespace characters” (see 3.3M4 News). Unfortunately some of us find it a bit too visible. Let’s make Eclipse a better place to live, right? I have created a patch that makes the visibility configurable via preferences page: Continue reading to download this feature (three patched plugins [...]

Eclipse Community Awards nomination is open for last 10 days. The awards will be presented on March 5, 2007 at EclipseCon 2007. The Eclipse Community Awards are to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse such a vibrant robust community. Here is the latest list of Individial Award nominees with a few [...]

One thing that netbeans does well is to support multiple rows of tabs for opened editors. Eclipse on the other hand makes these tabs just as unusable as Firefox after having more than 10 pages/editors open. I think it is possible to improve the usability. But how?