Eclipse Photon IDE Improvements: General and Git
Channel: Holger Voormann
Date: 2018-06-27

Eclipse Photon: https://eclipse.org/photon/

0:10 General https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php
0:21 Warnings for unsupported natures https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#report-missing-nature-as-marker
0:25 Modifiable project natures https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#edit-project-natures
0:38 Content type via file name patterns https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#contenttype-filename-pattern
1:04 Open Resource dialog highlights matching characters https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#open-resource-highlight-matching
1:10 Open Resource dialog now always shows the full path https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#open-resource-dialog-paths
1:15 Browser editor with new auto-refresh option https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#browser-autorefresh
1:39 Quick access matches preference pages by keyword https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#quickaccess-matches-preference-keywords
1:49 Parallel building of projects https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#parallel-builds-preference
1:54 Preference dialog with import/export buttons https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#preference-import-export-buttons
2:08 On windows native directory selection dialog https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#windows-modern-directory-dialog
2:17 On windows improved tree and table widget at high-DPI https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#tree-table-scaling
2:23 On macOs Menlo as default text font https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#default-font-macos
2:31 On Linux GTK3.14+ the GTK_THEME environment variable is supported https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#gtk3-theme-override-support
2:43 On Linux GTK3 memory leak fixed https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#swt-gtk3-memory-usage
2:49 On Linux GTK3 improved caret performance https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#swt-gtk3-caret-performance
2:59 Detach view or editor via right-click menu https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#detach-editor-view
3:07 Undo/Redo can be added to the main toolbar https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#unde-redo-toolbar
3:24 Prompt before deleting nested projects: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#delete-nested-projects
3:35 Dark theme improvements:
  3:42 Icons with transparent instead of white background https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#text-editor-icons-dark-theme
  3:46 Font colors for section title and link text in dark theme improved
  3:55 Configurable range indicator color https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/platform.php#range-indicator-color
  4:02 Improved Java syntax highlighting in the dark theme https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/jdt.php#jdt-syntaxcoloring-dark
4:14 Eclipse Platform code mining ready (e. g. for JDT Java Code Mining https://github.com/angelozerr/jdt-codemining)

4:44 Git https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/reviews/5.0.0-release-review
4:44 Git Staging view search field ignores "*" wildcard http://eclip.se/510132
4:49 Git variables that can be used in a launch configuration http://eclip.se/534604

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