A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Eclipse plugins

Eclipse 3.5
      • Target Management (Remote file browsing, via SSH): http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/
        • works great (but sshfs is simpler)
        • Instead of that, see also http://wills-tech-notes.blogspot.com/2010/07/remote-file-browsing.html
      • XSLT: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/
        • can't download through update manager, it's too slow
        • supposed to offer XML/XSL features, but I can't see any
      • Oxygen XML/XSLT: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html#Eclipse
        • Works. To use step-through debugging,you need to open the 'Debug Scenario' in the XML or XSL menu (it appears when you open an XML or XSL file)
      • vim -- why not use vim editor inside Eclipse? No good solution, apparently (none of these were tested):
        • http://www.viplugin.com/viplugin/ (2009 - costs a few pounds)
        • http://eclim.org/vim/ (recent)
        • http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/ (recent)
        • http://sourceforge.net/projects/vimplugin/ (2007, but states it supports syntax files)
      • Full Screen: http://code.google.com/p/eclipse-fullscreen/ (just works) 
      • P4WSAD: Perforce plugin: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/products/p4wsad.html (had to download zip file from FTP site and install manually, as automatic install URL was too slow)
        • Plugin can be slow to use if you browse the repository directly, but is faster if you check out, then do right-click | Import as project, and use the standard Eclipse Navigator or Project tab to work with the files.