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Eclipse IDE: How to have the file selected in Project Explorer when focusing on a certain file's tab?

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Say I have multiple files opened in Eclipse IDE. I just want Eclipse to show the file in the Project file tree, when I have certain file opened. Just like in NetBeans. In NetBeans when you focus on some opened file, the left tree will be updated and the file will be located in the left (files tree).

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Fix for: Eclipse IDE: How to have the file selected in Project Explorer when focusing on a certain file's tab?

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There is an icon which looks like two horizontal arrows: If you select this toggle button (so it is depressed as shown, it has the tooltip 'Link to Editor') then changing tabs should now refocus the selected item in the explorer. You can also find a…

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