[Bob Dietrich]

I’m editing some existing properties files with some long string values. The long lines have been broken up with a backslash at the end of the line. However, when the file is saved, the backslashes are removed and the lines converted into a very long line. How do I stop this behavior? Thanks.

[Brian Fernandes]

Bob,

I tried some simple tests involving backslashes with the MyEclipse Property editor – while it wrote the files to disk fine, on reopening the file, it displayed values that were different from the on-disk version, with the backslashes removed. I’ll ask the team to take a look at this.

In the meanwhile, you could use a simpler editor named, Properties File Editor by choosing this editor from the Open With context menu entry for the file – if required you could make this a permanent editor choice as well, from the General > Editors > File Associations preference page. Do you often use the tabular view of the properties that the MyEclipse Property Editor provides?

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

[Bob Dietrich]

Brian, thanks for looking at this so quickly. I always forget about using an alternate editor.

I don’t use the tabular view very often, because the comments are sometimes more important than the properties themselves.This view could be useful, however, if you could sort on name or value.

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