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I renamed one of my projects, which contains quite a bit of files, and Eclipse would start rebuilding the workspace. This prevents me from doing anything since I can't save.

Will there be any drawbacks if you skip that process?

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    It's running all of the configured builders. Whether that's a problem or not depends on what those builders are. – Matt Ball Oct 23 '12 at 02:52

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It means Eclipse is rebuilding every relevant project in your namespace. See Disable building workspace process in Eclipse and How to stop Eclipse rebuild workspace?

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  • Thanks, but why does it need to build/rebuild the project? Every other IDE I've used seems to function properly without doing any of that (sorry I'm new to using eclipse/pdt) – UserX Oct 23 '12 at 03:30
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    To show you your errors as soon as you save a file, I guess. Eclipse also functions properly without this. The question is why it's enabled by default. (I think it works like a charm in Java, but I'm not sure: I've never used it!) – aib Oct 23 '12 at 03:39
  • Thanks for clearing this up! Yeah I just tried editing a CSS file without building. Error checking seemed to be live, but content assist/code completion only works 10% of the time. Guess that's the drawback. – UserX Oct 23 '12 at 03:51
  • If you see a process such as "rebuilding index" do not cancel it, that should be the code assist. But it's still problematic. Apparently there's a "right click on project -> Index -> Rebuild" option in some development tools. Cross your fingers. – aib Oct 23 '12 at 04:08
  • Yes, the indexing is extremely problematic for bigger projects. It usually takes at least an hour for me despite running on pretty fast hardware. – UserX Oct 23 '12 at 04:18
  • Ouch. You may want to report that to the developer tools' developers. (Or hopefully the build thing fixes it.) – aib Oct 23 '12 at 04:31
  • Yeah, I reported to the bug tracker a day or two ago. Usually takes at least a few months before they finish the update packge though. Switched back to netbeans for now. It's a shame though, I actually found Eclipse/Aptana faster than netbeans while editing large scale projects, it's just that netbeans builds/scans the project within seconds. – UserX Oct 23 '12 at 04:37