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What do you think will be most desired feature of eclipse which does not exist yet?

+2  A: 

I'd think good and easy maven support, btw netbeans as very good maven support

naikus
+2  A: 

I would love elaborate search/replace feature like Labwindows/CVI and PSPad editor that can take folder selection input.

eee
NOTE: Currently, Eclipse only allows search/replace on the resource coming from a defined working set.
eee
+3  A: 

I'd like to integrate IM(AIM, MSN...) in Eclipse.

Although I found some IM-plugins, they don't work fine.

卢声远 Shengyuan Lu
+2  A: 

Read my mind and spit out code on the editor!

j/k.

  1. I think Eclipse needs a better UI toolbox.
  2. While you can refactor code to some extent, wouldn't it be awesome if it could also suggest design patterns for any recognizable patterns?
CoolBeans
+3  A: 

I don't really have a need for this, but many people want some way to create user-defined folding regions. Of course, this can lead to bad code, but other IDEs have it.

Matt
+2  A: 

Scripting support.

There has been several attempts, but none of them really succeeded. There should be a standard which all Eclipse projects align to.

zvikico