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Mac eclipse word boundary issue fix
After updating Java on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) I hit a crazy issue with my Flash Builder install, where the editors no longer recognized the dot character as a word separator. This was driving me totally crazy since I’m always using the arrow keys to move around and edit text.
After giving up completely and being resigned to abandon FB and jump ship to FDT over this issue, I found a solution completely by accident while doing something unrelated:
Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Text, and set the ‘Word Break’ dropdown to ‘English, United States (Computer)’. I needed to log out and log back in again, and everything was back to normal.
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about 2 months ago
Great, i’ve had the same problem. Thanks for sharing the solution.
about 2 months ago
How in the world did you ever track this down? Totally awesome, thanks a lot! I guess this preference default changed in Snow Leopard? Or did Java simply start respecting it?
about 2 months ago
That preference only came about in SL, but I’ve never seen it before this. Don’t know what the deal with Java is, just glad it works now!
about 2 months ago
Thanks and how obscure! I reported the problem via Adobe’s bug system back in 2007, and have now posted your workaround there too. It would still be nice to get a real fix though for those who don’t find these postings…
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-9398
about 2 months ago
This one has been bugging me forever! Thank you so much for finding a workaround.
about 2 months ago
Wow!! I’ve found this reported a bunch of places and this is the first time to hear of a workaround. It’s weird that other code editors (TextMate and IntelliJ to name a couple) don’t encounter the same issue. Must be a SWT thing??