Can a broken eclipse be repaired?

java eclipse sts-springsourcetoolsuite
stacker picture stacker · Jan 23, 2012 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

Since a few days I can't no longer use the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-S because it inserts special characters into my sources. In a property file I noticed that Ctrl-S inserts \u2308 .

Is there a way to repair this, without reinstalling STS_2.8.1 ?

Answer

Jesper picture Jesper · Jan 23, 2012

You can try starting Eclipse from the command line with the -clean option (so use the command eclipse -clean).

See also: What does the -clean parameter mean in the Eclipse IDE?

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