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Eclipse is fine once you have the memory configured right and you turn off all the dumb validations and unnecessary checking.

by arron61 15y ago

slackerIII 15y ago
Can you elaborate on that? I'm an eclipse newbie and using it for Android work feels like swimming in molasses.
- spacemanaki 15y ago
  This was posted a while back, but I don't know if it's as good as you can get it. I tried some of the tricks and found Eclipse still occasionally slow and buggy. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694840
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suking 15y ago
Are there any standard tutorials on what to turn on/off? I tried eclipse and found it so damn slow and buggy I never returned - that was a while ago - maybe it's better now...
Mizza 15y ago
This is absolutely the best answer here. I hated Vim.. until I got 12GB of RAM. Now it's just another tool. Bonus points: Install Vrapper (http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/) and get Vim keybindings. I also change the theme to get a black background and Inconsolata font.
cellis 15y ago
And once you configure your own keyboard shortcuts and commit them to muscle memory. I have set ctrl+] - select to the end of line ctrl+[ - select to beginning of line ctrl+d - cut current line ctrl+k - duplicate current line below ctrl+; - jump to beginning of line ctrl+' - jump to end of line ctrl+tab - switch perspective between debug and editor [1] ctrl+i - focus on console [2] ctrl+f - toggle find/replace bar About the last shortcut; I highly recommend you get a modern find feature and not the window popup eclipse ships with - http://sandipchitale.blogspot.com/2011/04/eclipse-findreplace-bar.html http://sandipchitale.blogspot.com/2011/04/eclipse-findreplac... - [1] For me this is pydev, for you could be the Android SDK ide. [2] I have a pydev python repl running in eclipse for simple checks. Using ctrl+i to focus on this console is really nice. Bonus if you customize your theme. Mine is a white text on black.
krakensden 15y ago
Honestly, that is the saddest thing I've ever heard. That's some disable-TSRs-and-fiddle-with-highmem level sad.

Eclipse is fine once you have the memory configured right and you turn off all the dumb validations and unnecessary checking.

by arron61 15y ago

Eclipse is fine once you have the memory configured right and you turn off all the dumb validations and unnecessary checking.

slackerIII 15y ago

Can you elaborate on that? I'm an eclipse newbie and using it for Android work feels like swimming in molasses.

spacemanaki 15y ago
This was posted a while back, but I don't know if it's as good as you can get it. I tried some of the tricks and found Eclipse still occasionally slow and buggy. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694840

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suking 15y ago

Are there any standard tutorials on what to turn on/off? I tried eclipse and found it so damn slow and buggy I never returned - that was a while ago - maybe it's better now...

Mizza 15y ago

This is absolutely the best answer here. I hated Vim.. until I got 12GB of RAM. Now it's just another tool. Bonus points: Install Vrapper (http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/) and get Vim keybindings. I also change the theme to get a black background and Inconsolata font.

cellis 15y ago

And once you configure your own keyboard shortcuts and commit them to muscle memory. I have set ctrl+] - select to the end of line ctrl+[ - select to beginning of line ctrl+d - cut current line ctrl+k - duplicate current line below ctrl+; - jump to beginning of line ctrl+' - jump to end of line ctrl+tab - switch perspective between debug and editor [1] ctrl+i - focus on console [2] ctrl+f - toggle find/replace bar About the last shortcut; I highly recommend you get a modern find feature and not the window popup eclipse ships with - http://sandipchitale.blogspot.com/2011/04/eclipse-findreplace-bar.html http://sandipchitale.blogspot.com/2011/04/eclipse-findreplac... - [1] For me this is pydev, for you could be the Android SDK ide. [2] I have a pydev python repl running in eclipse for simple checks. Using ctrl+i to focus on this console is really nice. Bonus if you customize your theme. Mine is a white text on black.

krakensden 15y ago

Honestly, that is the saddest thing I've ever heard. That's some disable-TSRs-and-fiddle-with-highmem level sad.