How Do You Set Eclipse's Default Settings for When You Create New Workspaces?

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I work on a couple of large projects and have different workspaces for different projects I'm working on, to help with the speed of searching in Eclipse. I also have other workspaces for the different branches of these works spaces. When I create new workspaces, I notice that I have to update things like display of line numbers, decrease font size, and change of wrapping length.

I'm hoping there is a way to globally change these default values, so each new workspace will automatically get my preferred settings.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '13 at 17:41

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Some settings can be exported/imported via wizard. Export/Import -> General -> Preferences.

Alot of your settings stored in: ../workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/*

(i.e.: org.eclipse.ui.editors contains the settings for line numbers)

You can copy&paste them.

answered Jan 24 '13 at 17:41

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I like this, is there a way to change the master settings though? – James Oravec Jan 24 '13 at 17:49
As far as i know, unfortunately not. – xoned Jan 24 '13 at 17:51

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '13 at 13:48

Workspacemechanic can record any change you do in Eclipse preferences, and then it can apply those changes in other workspaces that doesn't meet them.

http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/workspacemechanic/

By using workspace mechanic you can effectively override the global default preferences of Eclipse.
I'm using it to keep consistent fonts/color setup between different workspaces.

How Do You Set Eclipse's Default Settings for When You Create New Workspaces?

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