I want Eclipse to be like Dreamweaver
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I have a friend who emailed me last night after downloading a public beta for Adobe's second generation of an IDE based on Eclipse which enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise.
He had two gripes: Key Assists and Auto-closing tags. I'll show how to turn the Eclipse based IDE he downloaded into a more Dreamweaver like experience. Go ahead, download and install ColdFusion Builder 2 so you can walk through these steps with me. UPDATED: The installation can be as an Eclipse plugin or standalone.
Please forgive me since I haven't used Dreamweaver in years, so feel free to contribute comments on other ways you make Eclipse more like Dreamweaver.
Key Assists
Under the Window —> Preferences —> ColdFusion —> Profiles, select Dreamweaver. That is it. Now you should have Dreamweaver shortcuts and even color coding.
Auto-closing Tags
Eclipse's preferences are sometime hard to find settings. With the Preferences window still up type "Typing" in the filter and select Typing under ColdFusion —> Profiles —> Editor. On the Typing panel, under Auto-close tags select "When typing '>' of start tag". Then repeat this general process for the other Typing panels under HTML.
This concludes my post about how to make Eclipse more like Dreamweaver.
Useful tips, thanks, I'm also revisiting CFB via the beta. So far nothing has tempted me away from DW because it's so fast yet powerful as a code editor (I don't use the design view mode). I wish Adobe could have based CFB on DW rather than Eclipse although I can understand why they didn't. New features in CFB2 do seem to promise some of things I love in DW, such as a decent search and replace (although still no "replace with selected text" which I use frequently, it's coming in a later release it seems) and code formatting profiles. However a major turnoff for me is the 400-800% increase in memory usage compared to DW, and I doubt there's going to be a 'DW preference' for that although I gather there are things you can disable to reduce it a bit.
i prefer dreamweaver then eclipse.memory hog.
People with memory/performance issues with Eclipse should try tweaking the Eclipse ini file. Here are a couple posts: http://www.henke.ws/post.cfm/easy-eclipse-performance-enhancements-with-ini and http://www.henke.ws/post.cfm/Turbo-charging-Eclipse
Please let me know if that helps either of you.