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MyEclipse Text Editor Tutorial

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1. Preface

This document was written using MyEclipse. All screenshots are based upon the default user interface settings for MyEclipse and Windows XP. If you experience difficulty with the instruction of this document, please see the User Feedback section for how to provide feedback to the MyEclipse documentation team.


 

2. Introduction

This tutorial shows the concepts and features of the MyEclipse Text Editor. The Text Editor is used for editing plain text files. The Text Editor can also be used to edit configuration files and programming language source code.

The MyEclipse Text Editor will open by defualt when a text file is opened in MyEclipse. It can also be opened by right clicking on a file and going to Open With > Text Editor.


3. Editing Text

The MyEclipse Text Editor offer a broad and complex range of functionality. It provides the following basic text editing feature:-

  • Search and replace
  • Copy, cut and paste
  • Text formatting
  • Undo and redo

The MyEclipse Text Editor is shown in the figure below.


Figure 1: MyEclipse Text Editor


4. Preferences Page

The preference page for the Text editor can be easily accessed by simply right-clicking the editor and selecting "Preferences" Also, you can find them under Window->Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors.

The Text editor preference page is shown below.


Figure 2: Text Editor Preferences


5. FAQ

Q1: How can the default encoding of a text file be changed to UTF-8?
Answer: Go to Windows > Preferences > General > Content Type, select Text in the Content Types panel and for the *.txt file association change the default encoding to UTF-8.


6. User Feedback

If you have comments or suggestions regarding this document please submit them to the MyEclipse Documentation Forum.