Eclipse Indent Guide

Question

I am trying to install an indentation guide plugin for eclipse from the following web page

http://sschaef.github.io/IndentGuide/

I have not installed plugins before in eclipse and would appreciate some help.

I have downloaded the file as a .zip and extracted it. Firstly I placed the file in the plugins folder but the file was not found. I then tried placing each of the contained folders 'pdt_tools.indentGuide', 'pdt_tools.indentGuide.feature' and 'pdt_tools.indentGuide.updateSite' in the eclipse plugins folder. This time when I go to Windows>Preferences>General>Editors>Text Editors>Indent Guide, I get an error 'An error has occured when creating this preference page'.

'Unable to create the selected preference page. jp.sourceforge.pdt_tools.indentguide.preferences.IndentGuidePreferencePage cannot be found by jp.sourceforge.pdt_tools.indentGuide_1.3.2.v20120803'

Can anyone help me install this plugin?

Answer 1

Go to Help->"Install New Software" . In the window that opens you can find textbox with "type or select a site" - Enter http://sschaef.github.io/IndentGuide/update/ press enter. The Grid below should refresh , select "Indent Guide" and complete installation.

Answer 2

No clue how to install from zip, but what I did was to take the "update URL" at the bottom of your link, put it into the box at the top of eclipse's help|Install New Software dialog, and install the plugin using eclipse's system. It work great for me and solves one of my major complaints with eclipse.