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By mortona2k on
I tried on helios, galeleo, and aptana, and 2 different computers, all using pdt php editer and the drupal eclipse plugin. As soon as I open a tpl.php file, the editor freezes. I can't find anything on this.
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dunno
I've not had that problem .. but I use the phpeclipse plugin.
I had managed to kill eclipse if the project directories had recursive symlinks, and the text editor can occasionally die if opening a very large file with no carriage returns ...
but tpl.php files should be fine.
.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards
Editing .tpl.php locks up Eclipse
I have a similar problem when editing .tpl.php files in Eclipse for Windows, but I've never had this problem on any of my Linux setups (not sure if that's relevant?). When editing a .tpl.php file eclipse regularly locks up for a minute or more, but sometimes permanently hangs. Occasionally when/if eclipse unfreezes I get the error "Unhandled event loop execution java.lang.StackOverflowError". It's been driving me insane for weeks. I have to use Windows at my current role so switching to Linux is not an option.
bug confirmation
Linux Ubuntu 10.04 + Eclipse => the same, regular freez on tpl.php files
I am having the same issue.
I am having the same issue. It happens when I edit tpl.php files using the default php editor. But if I use the html editor it doesn't crash.
The other thing I noticed is that when I view tpl.php files in the php editor, some of the white spaces (I have visible white spaces enabled) looks a little red like there is an error being parsed.
It usually happens right after the closing caret for php,
...I noticed too that if I add a character after that point that the white spaces go back to their normal grey color.
Also, I noticed that the error doesn't happen if I use <? .. ?> instead of
...;I would be fine with editing the files in the html editor except that I can't seem to make configure eclipse to open tpl.php with the html editor by default.
This site has a tip that
This site has a tip that might help some:
http://tech.akom.net/archives/63-The-Eclipse,-PDT-and-Smarty-dance.html
It essentially says that you can remove tpl from plugin.xml to remove the PDT strangle hold on the *.tpl.php files.
Aptana has an PHP editor that
Aptana has an PHP editor that does not have this issue. You could either download it as a plug-in for Eclipse or as a it's own project.
http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install
By the way, you say that you tried Aptana, but I think if you have PDT installed, then PDT is handling the PHP editing. So you need to make sure you uninstall PDT and then map then link *.module, *.install etc. file types to the PHP editor that comes with Aptana.
html.tpl.php
This was happening to me, but *only* when opening html.tpl.php.
The problem is that the new DOCTYPE in drupal 7 is unfamiliar to a vanilla install of Eclipse:
The URL in that line hangs - for good reason:
http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/
I finally figured out that if you just leave eclipse alone for a good *five minutes*, it finally resolves the file, and stops beachballing when it hits that doctype.