Eclipse Ganymede HTML editor incredibly slow when editing attributes

Question

Hi

I recently upgraded to Eclipse Ganymede from Europa and now I'm finding that when I'm editing JSP files the IDE crawls when editing HTML attributes (but not JSP attributes).

Has anyone experienced this, or have any suggestions?

Also if you can point me to a better place to ask Eclipse related questions, do tell.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The visual editors in Eclipse are slow. I have no idea why that is; other graphics frameworks achieve mindboggling effects in Java in real time so they shouldn't be that slow.

I suggest you open a bug report against Eclipse. This way, you can give them feedback and see what they think about it plus you can track any progress if they accept it.

As for asking Eclipse questions, go to the newsgroups. There are also mailing lists but those are only for developers working on Eclipse (not those who work with it). So they are only an option should you choose to work on this bug :)

Answer 2

No one has had a better answer in all this time? Like "How to" turn off the HTML validator?

Answer 3

For Eclipse Ganymede: You can use the following menu to disable HTML validation all together or parts of it by project.

Right Click on the project | Project Properties | Validation | Enable Project Specific Settings.

Then you can disable HTML Validation.

Or, from Project Properties, click open Validation and select HTML Validation. Select Enable Project Specific Settings and set any of the ten element checks to "Ignore."

You can also turn these settings off for the entire workspace using the Windows (Eclipse) Preferences | Validation settings.

HTH.

Regards,

Rich

Answer 4

Try closing the overview tab