AnyEdit Tools

Eclipse community awards 2009 finalist

AnyEdit plugin adds several new tools to the context menu of text- based Eclipse editors, to output consoles, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar. AnyEdit contributes also Import/Export working sets wizards.

What can AnyEdit do for you?

AnyEdit can perform tabs <-> spaces conversion on multiple files or entire directories.

AnyEdit has both workspace and project settings and allows also file exclusion filter for tabs <-> spaces action.

AnyEdit allows you automatically remove trailing whitespace, perform tabs<->spaces conversion and fix line delimiters (Windows: CRLF<->Linux: LF<->Mac: CR) on the "save" action in all text-based Eclipse editors. Also AnyEdit can automatically create a new line at the end of the file if the last line was not terminated by new line.

AnyEdit adds "Save All" and "Open File" buttons to the global Eclipse toolbar and can remove "Print" button from it on Eclipse 3.x (because it is completely useless on Linux).

AnyEdit adds "Open File", "Open Type" and "Save to file..." actions to supported output consoles and "Save to file..." toolbar button to the Console view.

AnyEdit adds four new context menu actions to "Compare With" and "Replace With" menus in both editors and files.

Overview about *visible* contributions provided by AnyEdit tools:

What?

Where?

Details

Open File under Cursor

Editors, Console views, Bytecode Outline View

Useful by many include's in jsp's, C/C++ files, file names in the console output etc. Can jump to the right line!
Works with run/debug and Ant console too, support "jump to line"!

Open Type under Cursor

Editors, Console views, Bytecode Outline View

Useful for all xml's, tld's, jsp's etc files with referenced Java types.
Works with run/debug and Ant console too!

Save to file...

Most of the Console views, Bytecode Outline View

Allows to save the console/view content and quickly reopen it in an editor.
Works with most of the existing consoles!

Format Stack Trace

Java Stack Trace Console view

Formats the ill-formated stack traces (like from some JUnit test reports).

Edit
    Color Witespace in Editors

"Edit" menu, main toolbar

Allows to show tabs and spaces colored in the text editor. Shows trailing whitespace in a "Gerrit" mode per default. Has to be enabled once for the desired perspective via Window -> Customize Perspective -> Commands -> Whitespace

File Import / Export
    Working Sets

"File" menu

Allows you to store working set definitions to the file and apply them to the another workspace by importing them.

File
    Convert Tabs <-> Spaces

"File" menu

Enabled only if more then one file/folder is selected in Navigator or Project Explorer

Convert
    Tabs to Spaces
    Spaces to Tabs

Editors

Trailing whitespace will be removed and line delimiters will be fixed automatically (if set in preferences)

Convert
    Chars to Html entities
    Html Entities to Chars

Editors

Useful if working in bilingual team to convert é's, ô's, ä's etc between html and other sources ;)

Convert
    Camel <-> Underscores

Editors

Auto-convert variable names from/to "camel" notation, like
thisIsMyFieldName <-> this_is_my_field_name

Convert
    Capitalize

Editors

Only text selection in editor will be changed

Convert
    Invert Case

Editors

Only text selection in editor will be changed

Convert
    To Upper Case
    To Lower Case

Editors

Only text selection in editor will be changed

Convert
    To Unicode Notation
    From Unicode Notation

Editors

Only text selection in editor will be changed

Convert
    To Base64
    From Base64

Editors

Only text selection in editor will be changed

Sort
    Case-Sensitive A-z
    Case-Sensitive z-A
    Case-Insensitive A-Z
    Case-Insensitive Z-A
    Numerically 0-9
    Numerically 9-0
    Line Length Short-Long
    Line Length Long-Short

Editors

If nothing is selected, entire editor content will be sorted, otherwise only text selection in editor will be changed

Compare / Replace with
    Clipboard

Editors, Navigator, Project Explorer

If some text is selected in editor, then only this selection will be compared, otherwise entire editor

Compare / Replace with
    Workspace File...

Editors, Navigator, Project Explorer

If some text is selected in editor, then only this selection will be compared, otherwise entire editor

Compare / Replace with
    External File...

Editors, Navigator, Project Explorer

If some text is selected in editor, then only this selection will be compared, otherwise entire editor

Compare / Replace with
    Opened Editor...

Editors, Navigator, Project Explorer

If some text is selected in editor, then only this selection will be compared, otherwise entire editor

Current version works with Eclipse from 3.8 to 4.6 and requires Java >= 1.7, but older AnyEdit versions for Eclipse 2.1 up to 3.7 may be downloaded from the homepage too.

See more details at the AnyEdit Tools homepage and Github project page.

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My other plugins on EPIC:

• Bytecode Outline
• Extended VS Presentation
• FileSync
• JDepend4Eclipse
• Data Hierarchy
• FindBugs plugin for Eclipse
• Plug-In Dependencies Explorer