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Eclipse Texlipse
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.texlipse
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Facilitate creation of new projects from existing resources #34

Open gerking opened 7 years ago

gerking commented 7 years ago

TeXlipse is not really helpful when it comes to creating a new project on top of existing LaTeX resources (e.g, inside a Git repository).

The wizard for new projects allows to create the project at an external location, which is helpful. But afterwards, there seems no way to select any existing resources from that location, e.g., to serve as the main *.tex file. Instead, all resource names need to be specified manually.

Providing the wizard with dialogs for resource selection would be really helpful. Regarding this, the issue seems highly related to #33.

s13ffen commented 6 years ago

While Texlipse is not really helpful, is there any workaround to do this manually?

gerking commented 6 years ago

As stated above, TeXlipse allows to create a LaTeX project at an external location, but generates its own TeX and output files inside that folder. However, afterwards you can open the LaTeX Project Properties and set the main TeX and output file of the project to an existing *.tex file. Finally, you should delete the obsolete files that were generated by the TeXlipse wizard.