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SWT GTK Bug Affecting Grep Console

If you are using Grep Console with Eclipse Mars on a Linux system, you might have faced a strange issue: In certain versions of GTK, the Manage Expressions dialogue is empty – or rather, it shows the tree node expansion … Continue reading

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New Quick Bookmarks Release 1.3

Version 1.3 of Quick Bookmarks is out, providing the following new features: Shortcuts for navigation across files: In addition to the the keyboard shortcuts for navigation between bookmarks in the current file (Alt+PgUp/PgDn by default), shortcuts for navigation through all … Continue reading

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New Quick Bookmarks Release 1.2

Version 1.2 of Quick Bookmarks introduces a few new features. A third page was added to the popup dialogue listing all bookmarks from the workspaces. The selected bookmark list in the dialogue is now remembered even when restarting Eclipse. Bookmarks … Continue reading

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New Quick Bookmarks Release 1.1

Version 1.1 of Quick Bookmarks adds a popup dialogue listing the most recently used bookmarks: The dialogue is triggered via Alt+End and can be navigated with the cursor keys. Selecting a bookmark and pressing Return jumps directly to the bookmark … Continue reading

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New Eclipse Plug-in: Quick Bookmarks

For years I’ve been missing simple bookmarks in Eclipse – bookmarks that can be quickly toggled and navigated via the keyboard, like I remember them from Delphi all those years ago. Now I decided to do something against it and … Continue reading

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New Grep Console Release 3.6 and two new Eclipse plug-ins

It’s been a while since the last update, but there finally is a new version of Grep Console, providing bug fixes and a new feature. Features: Statistics – Expression occurences can be counted and displayed in a separate view. Also, … Continue reading

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Eclipse, CMake and C++11

Getting C++11 to work with CMake is easy. Getting Eclipse to work with a CMake project is easy. Getting Eclipse to work with C++11 also seems to be relatively easy (there are plenty of guides on various wikis). But getting … Continue reading

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Bugfix Release: Grep Console 3.5.1

Two bugs were introduced in version 3.5 and have been fixed in service release 3.5.1: Old, close consoles would throw null pointer exceptions when the Grep View filter settings were changed Even if notifications were disabled for an expression item, … Continue reading

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Eclipse 4.x tab font sizes in GTK

The Eclipse 4 branch introduced some notable visual changes compared to the previous 3.x releases, like a reliance on more whites than greys. While unexpected at first, most of these changes just take some getting used to. With the exception … Continue reading

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New Grep Console release: 3.5

Three months after the previous release, a new version of Grep Console is ready. Version 3.5 introduces notifications and GUI improvements. Features: Popup notifications – Expressions can now trigger popup notifications which display messages based on the matched console lines … Continue reading

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