Problems with Android XML Editor and Eclipse…Hard to manually edit XML

Question

It\'s been a few years since I have last developed android apps. Since then, a graphical editor was added to Eclipse that allows you to generate the XML for an layout in a

Answer 1

I have the same issues, delete, ctrl-v not working in the latest Eclipse as of July 2012 with the latest Android plugin on Linux Mint 64 bit. It's definiteley (in my case at least) the android XML editor that is at fault. As Damon says, opening the xml using eclipse with "open with" and not choosing the android editor fixes the issue. The android editor can be open in parallel.