Writing Eclipse plugin to modify Editor Preferences

Question

I\'d like to develop a plugin (tool bar buttons) for Eclipse CDT where users can easily switch between 8 and 4 spaces tabs and turn on/off soft tabs. (Why bother you asked?

Answer 1

You can use code similar to the following to get and set preferences in any plugin.

IPreferenceStore s = new ScopedPreferenceStore(new InstanceScope(), "org.eclipse.ui");
ss.setValue("SHOW_MEMORY_MONITOR", true);