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
The issue I face, which is demo-ed here (not posted by me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnOesjL1IE,
is fixed by disabling "Automatically format the XML edited by the visual layout editor".
The formatting for layout XML is gone for sure, but at least I can edit the file properly.