I am trying to reach at the eclipse source code so I can maybe try to modify/fix. I have had more frustrating experiences - very few.
I tried to follow the post by Ian Bull Patching your own Eclipse IDE
I switched to the PDE perspective and fired up the wizard New > FeaturePatch. Now I am stuck at:
So how I populate the browse dialog ? I want to edit formating of java code by the JDT core. Ideally I would like to be able to edit the master branch of the kepler maintenance release.
Just press Browse
and then type part of the feature id you want to patch. Just typing j
should show you the jdt feature among a few others.