Using windows environment variables in eclipse preferences

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I use eclipse (texlipse) on several computers, using Dropbox. In each computer, the dropbox folder absolute path is different. I would like to point eclipse's (texlipse's) spell-checker dictionary to a file that is in my dropbox directory. In order for this to work in all computers, I wanted to define an environment variable that points to my dropbox folder. However, eclipse doesn't recognize windows's environment variables in its properties.

Any ideas?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '14 at 11:35

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Let's assume you have an environment variable DICTIONARY_HOME containing path to your local dropbox folder. And let's assume you have a user_dictionary.txt file there. Setting ${env_var:DICTIONARY_HOME}/user_dictionary.txt into User defined dictionary of General > Editors > Text Editors > Spelling in the preferences solves the problem!

Works at eclipse 4.3.0 @ win7 x64

answered Apr 09 '14 at 11:35

FlasH from Ru

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Thanks!Note, however, that this works only for eclipse's dictionary, but not for texlipse's dictionary. – Yoni Zohar Apr 09 '14 at 15:57
Yeah, sorry - missed TeXlipse having its own spellchecker ( – FlasH from Ru Apr 09 '14 at 20:15

Using windows environment variables in eclipse preferences

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