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By default, eclipse only puts items in the toolbar I never use. With customize perspective, I am able to take these out, but I am not allowed to put in commands I actually use regularly, such as Search File, and a a bunch of SVN commands, ... and now when I select 'previous edit' to put in the toolbar it doesnt show up. Is there a way to fix this?

ps rant: The "search" tool button dropdown is the same number of clicks as the search menu!!! This defeats the whole point of a one click toolbar!!!!!

Edit While we'are at it, removing everything in the right click menu of the file navigator between "Refresh" and "Properties" would be nice too.

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I believe the best you're going to get is Window -- Customize Perspective and then select/deselect items in "Command Groups Availability".

It's up to plugin authors to "contribute" commands, so if they don't do so in their plugin.xml files, then those commands will not show up in these lists.

marc esher
Is it possible/advisable to edit this xml to make the commands I want toolbarable?
Matt
it's possible, but not advised. You're getting into "here be dragons" territory, because you'll have to learn all about action and commands, contributions, etc, and you'd be getting into a cycle of edit / restart / break / edit restart because you really have no way to test your changes otherwise. It'll be a time sink, and they'll get overwritten when the plugin is updated. I'd advise contacting the plugin authors first. If I were you, I'd spend my time learning the keybindings for the actions instead of using the toolbar
marc esher