StartExplorer

StartExplorer was developed as an Open Source plugin that is supposed to offer a tight integration of system file manager (Windows Explorer, Gnome Nautilus, KDE Konqueror, Mac Finder, ...) and the shells (cmd.exe, Linux/Mac terminal) into Eclipse.

Every now and then when working with Eclipse you'd like to examine a file or a folder inside the Eclipse workspace with your file manager or open a shell/cmd.exe in this location.

Or you edit a file in Eclipse and would like to open the parent folder of this file in the file manager or shell.

This plug-in gives you a convenient way to do all this by adding a few entries to Eclipse's context menus.

It offers a different, more convenient way to issue any shell/dos command you like through customizable menu commands.

Last but not the least this plugin offers a tighter integration of the clip board, so copying a file's/folder's path to the clip board is only two mouse clicks (instead of) opening the Properties dialog and selecting the path manually.