Something in my Preferences file breaks auto-complete...

Question

There's something in my preferences file that is causing Eclipse's auto-complete feature (for Java) to not work.

What do I mean? Well, I work on multiple computers, and I like a very specific color scheme. So, I exported my preferences file from Eclipse on one computer, and I import it to Eclipse on my other computers. The colors look great and everything is nice.

The problem is, something about the importing of the preferences file is causing auto-complete to stop working. This has happened several times, but to figure it out I did the following: I got a fresh copy of Eclipse 3.6. Auto-complete works. Then I import the preferences file, and auto-complete stops working. The suggestion contains no entries.

Here's a picture to make it all real for you:

This is kind of annoying. Any ideas what could be causing this? I really only care about my font and the colors in the preferences file... If you want to look at the file, I keep it here on Google Code.

Thanks, Nels

Answer 1

In my experience Eclipse preferences only work well within the same minor version (3.4, 3.5, 3.6 etc) and you go from 3.5 to 3.6.

I would take the time to rebuild your preference setup and generate a new preferences file for using with 3.6.