Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Eclipse - slow near angled bracket

Just a quick note.
Finally found out what was causing the immense slow-down in Eclipse when editing large files.

What was happening was every time I opened an angled bracket, keyboard repeat onto the screen lagged. i.e., you'd press a key and then have to wait a second or two for the character to appear.

What you need to do to fix this is to get rid of any View in your Perspective that you are not using. In particular, the Outline view from the General perspective. It seems that every time you open an angled bracket, that line becomes part of the file Outline and it has to move everything in the Outline to insert your new element.

So, just get rid of the Outline view from your Workspace and Restart Eclipse (very important!).

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