Maintaining a common set of Eclipse preferences

Question

Whenever I switch workspaces/Eclipse installs I need to copy/redo the preferences:

• compiler settings;
• font sizes/families;
• code formatter;

Answer 1

You now have a good example of a separate project maintaining Eclipse preferences, as plugin.

See the saneclipse project from Lars Vogel.

You also have the associated vogellacompany/com.vogella.saneclipse repo, which will tweak and fine-tune the settings of:

com.vogella.saneclipse.preferences/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
com.vogella.saneclipse.preferences/.settings/org.eclipse.core.runtime.prefs
com.vogella.saneclipse.preferences/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
com.vogella.saneclipse.templates/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
com.vogella.saneclipse.fileextensions/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
com.vogella.saneclipse.fileextensions/.settings/org.eclipse.pde.core.prefs