How to add undo / redo buttons to toolbar in Eclipse?

Question

I feel a bit embarrassed asking this questions, but how the heck can I get regular undo/redo buttons into the toolbar of eclipse?

I\'ve often to switch between Germa

Answer 1

One way is to use custom plugin. In fact, such custom plugin doesn't need to do anything, only declare new toolbar contribution using existing undo/redo commands.

I've built such plugin for you: http://www.foglyn.com/misc/undoredo_1.0.0.jar. There is absolutely no code, only plugin.xml:

And MANIFEST.MF:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: Undoredo
Bundle-SymbolicName: undoredo;singleton:=true
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: J2SE-1.5
Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.ui

You can download it, and drop into your 'dropins' directory of Eclipse, restart, and you'll see Undo/Redo buttons on your toolbar.

Works for me in Eclipse 3.4 and Eclipse 3.5M7.