I don\'t need m2eclipse to work properly, I just need to remove m2eclipse for now and let eclipse behave normally. how do i do this?
after doing what VonC suggested, goto the directory eclipse\plugins and search anything with m2e and remove it from the directory also do the same for the eclipse\features directory. then you won't be seeing any of the m2e things again. i would have used m2e if it had a command line feature similar to "mvn eclipse:clean" and "mvn eclipse:eclipse" sadly their both incompatible with each other.. right now all i needed are those two command lines to get me up and running with eclipse just to browse and edit the code, etc..