Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Eclipse Platform for the 4.19 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:
Plug-in developers will also be interested in the corresponding What's new document in the plug-in developer's guide.
We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks.
Text Editors |
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Horizontal Scrolling in Text Editor | You can now scroll horizontally in the Text Editor using Shift+Mouse Wheel and touchpad gestures on Windows. Horizontal scrolling with touchpad already works on Linux and macOS. |
Debug |
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Find Next/Previous in Console View |
In the Console view, you can repeat your last search in the forward or backward direction
in the following ways:
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Disable All in Breakpoints view |
In the Breakpoints view, you can disable all the breakpoints using the new Disable All context-menu option available on right-click.
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Termination of child-processes of launched OS-processes can be configured |
Since Eclipse 4.18 child-processes (descendants) of an operating-system process launched from Eclipse are terminated too,
when the launched process is terminated (for example by clicking the terminate button).
It is now possible to configure in the Launch-Configuration if the child-processes of a launched process should be terminated too or if they should stay alive, in case the launched processes is terminated. You can control this with the check-box Terminate child-processes if terminating the launched process in the Common tab of the Run/Debug Configurations dialog. By default this check-box is selected and child-processes are termianted too.
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Preferences |
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External browsers on Windows |
On Windows, the list of recognized External web browsers has been updated to include:
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General Updates |
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Equinox Linux Security JNA Fragment | A new fragment has been added for Linux password security using JNA. This new fragment replaces the old JNI x86_64-specific fragment and supports all Linux architectures. |