Eclipse text editor resizing

Question

How to resize editor pane in Eclipse smoothly? Right now when I resize it - it jumps for about 40 text characters. Other views that are on the left side (Navigator, Task List) are being resized smoothly.

I hope I've explained it right, I am unable to attach screenshots right now...

Eclipse Kepler SR2

Gentoo Linux x64, kernel 3.12.13

UPD: captured video for better understanding of my problem

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue with resizing editor windows vertically with GGTS 3.4.0 (which is based on Eclipse). I fixed it via the following steps:

1. Close Eclipse/GGTS

2. Open workbench.xmi in a text editor. The file is located in your workspace's plugins folder (in my case, workspace\ggts-3.4.0.RELEASE\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.e4.workbench)

3. Search for all lines containing the text containerData

4. If any of the matches contain very low numbers (e.g. containerData="1" or containerData="2") change the values to 2500. In my case, there were two such entries: one had type="advanced:Placeholder" with elementId="org.eclipse.ui.editorss" and the other had type="basic:PartStack" with elementId="bottom".

5. Save the changes to workbench.xmi

6. Open Eclipse/GGTS