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<h1 CLASS="Head"> Workspace</h1>
<p CLASS="Head">On the

  <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workspace)")'>
  <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png">
  <strong>General &gt; Workspace</strong></a>

  preference page, you can manage 
  various IDE-specific workspace preferences settings in the Workbench. </p>

<table width="75%" border="1">
  <tr> 
    <td><strong>Option</strong></td>
    <td><strong>Description</strong></td>
    <td><strong>Default</strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>Build automatically</td>
    <td>If this option is turned on, then the Workbench will perform an automatic 
      build whenever a modified resource is saved.</td>
    <td>On</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>Save automatically before build</td>
    <td>If this option is selected, when a manual build is performed the Workbench 
      will automatically save all resources that have been modified since the 
      last build was performed.<br></td>
    <td>Off<br></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>Workspace save interval (in minutes) </td>
    <td>This number indicates how often the state of the workspace is automatically 
      saved to disk.</td>
    <td>5</td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td>Refresh automatically</td>
    <td><p>If this option is turned on then the workspace resources will be synchronized 
        with their corresponding resources in the file system automatically.</p>
      <p><strong>Note</strong>: This can potentially be a lengthy operation depending 
        on the number of resources you have in your workspace. </p></td>
    <td>Off </td>
  </tr>
  <TR> 
    <TD COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">Open referenced projects when a 
      project is opened</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">If this option is enabled opening 
      a project will also open and closed projects it references. Select prompt 
      if you wish to be asked first.</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">Prompt</TD>
  </TR>
  <TR> 
    <TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Text 
        file encoding</P></TD>
    <TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para"> Use 
        this option to specify the encoding to use when saving text files in editors. 
      </P></TD>
    <TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Default 
        (CP1252)</P></TD>
  </TR>
  <TR> 
    <TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Text 
        File line delimiter</P></TD>
    <TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para"> Use 
        this option to specify the line delimiter to use for new text files. <strong>Note:</strong> 
        This will generally not effect the file line delimiter for<br>
        existing files.</P></TD>
    <TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Default 
      </P></TD>
  </TR>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is what the <strong>Workspace</strong> preferences page looks like:</p> 
<p><img src="../images/Image209_workspace.png" alt="Preference dialog" border="0" ></p>


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