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No more tabs in Properties File Editor

I am using Eclipse Neon.3 (4.6.3). In the past, Eclipse used to have several tabs on the bottom of the editor window, when a file was opened in the Properties File Editor mode. There you could choose to view the file either in a table-like view or as a plain text file.

I usually edit my resource files in plain text, which still works fine. However, the table view had one nice feature: Duplicate entries were highlighted in red color in the table-view.

But this view is no longer available, since there are no tabs in the Properties File Editor anymore. Did I miss anything? Where has this tab gone? Do I need an additional plug-in for this feature? As far as I can tell, this used to be a built-in feature of Eclipse.

Solution

  • I still had an old installation of Eclipse Mars and found out, that the feature in question is not built-in to Eclipse. The feature is provided by the JBoss Tools Properties Editor, which is part of Red Hat's Hibernate Tools.

    JBoss Properties Editor

    To install on Eclipse Mars, follow the instructions of this StackOverflow post.