Eclipse for Chimera Development

These notes used the Ubuntu 10.04 package for eclipse, which provided: Eclipse SDK 3.5.2 (Build id: M20100211-1343). See the ​eclipse site for other downloads.

Eclipse Plugins

The ​PyDev plugin was installed, using the Eclipse: Help > Install New Software utility, by adding the http://pydev.org/updates site.

For a useful vi emulation in eclipse, see ​viplugin. An alternative is ​eclim.

Configure PyDev Preferences

First setup the Chimera ​python2.7 interpreter (be sure to manually add $CHIMERA/share and $CHIMERA/lib to the "system PYTHONPATH" configuration). Then set some ​Chimera environment variables. Finally, an optional addition is to create a VirtualEnv for Chimera and add the pylint package, then configure the ​pylint preferences.