Recent Editors

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2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-12 (4.18), 2021-03 (4.19)

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Solution Description

This plugin adds features to quickly re-open recently closed files.

* New dialog to view and re-open recently closed editors
* Open the last closed editor via keyboard shortcut
* The current scoll position and caret position of editors is persisted and can be restored when an editor is re-opened. This enables to continue editing at the last viewed position.

This plugin adds the following shortcuts. They can be changed in the Preferences (see Screenshot):
* Recently Closed Files Dialog: CTRL+E
* Re-open Last Closed File: CTRL+SHIFT+W

GitHub: https://github.com/achimmihca/RecentEditors

See also the Open Editors plugin to navigate open files: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/open-editors

NOTE:
This plugin requires JDK 11 or newer. You can configure the Java VM that is used by Eclipse using the -vm option in eclipse.ini, which is explained here.

Additional Details

Eclipse Versions: 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), Neon (4.6), Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-12 (4.18), 2021-03 (4.19)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 09:50

License: EPL 2.0

Date Updated: Friday, January 15, 2021 - 10:12

Submitted by: Andreas Stange

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Date Ranking Installs Clickthroughs
May 2024 0/0 0 0
April 2024 487/687 9 10
March 2024 465/694 12 4
January 2024 474/691 8 9
December 2023 534/671 5 10
November 2023 526/686 6 12
October 2023 533/673 6 8
September 2023 464/663 11 4
August 2023 483/673 8 8
July 2023 499/668 7 1
June 2023 531/669 5 11
May 2023 498/671 9 8
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Hi,

This is helpful - thanks for creating the plugin. If possible, it would be nice if it remembered the recently closed files between sessions. When I start Eclipse the recent files list in the File/Recent Files menu shows the recently closed files from before, while this plugin starts with an empty list each time. It would require this plugin to persist its list of recently closed files so they could be reloaded at startup.

Hi,

gave Recent Editors a try. Unfortunately the windows show up is always empty. No entry is recent closed list

MacOS: 10.15.6
Eclipse: Version: 2020-06 (4.16.0), Build id: 20200615-1200
java: openjdk 13 2019-09-17

Any hints what to do?

regards

spachner