Eclipse tip: Choose editor from the "Open Resource" dialog

Eclipse 3.5 added the option to choose which editor to use when opening a file from the Open Resource dialog:

It's useful when a file type is associated with an external editor, but one has a need of finding it in Eclipse to work with e.g. version control.

Promising "Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing"

With eclipse 3.4 comes ECF (eclipse communications framework) version 2, which allows this:



The only "collaborative real-time editor" I've seen before is SubEthaEdit which is mac-only (and does not have all those IDE features one wants for coding).

Eclipse change sets

The release of subversion 1.5 brought basic support for "changelists" in the command-line client. It's a quick and easy way to organize work instead of at commit time having to go through the diffs and trying to remember what belonged to the issue at hand.

Working in eclipse, I have the need for something similar, and was surprised that up until now I've never noticed the existing support for change sets in eclipse. It feels great to "discover" a small but useful feature, even if it is a couple of years old :).