How to programmatically reload a text editor in Eclipse?

In Eclipse, if I change a file programmatically, and it is open in a text editor, it doesn't always reload, not even when refreshing the resource programmatically. How can I forcibly reload the text editor from code so that it show the changed 开发者_运维百科file contents?

In your project explorer or navigator, you can right-click on the file that's currently open and select refresh. This has always worked for me, even when editing files with several programs. Make sure to click the file itself, not parent objects like packages or folders or projects.

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Refreshing programmatically? I would look into an Eclipse scripting tool:

http://eclipse-shell.sourceforge.net/

I guess there was another one called Monkey, but it doesn't appear to be maintained.

I don't know of any possibility to programmatically reload the file.

Some editors (e.g. GMF editors) look for changes in the underlying files, and refresh themselves, but this is not required at all.

I don't think that a forced reload is an option implemented globally, as in some cases there could be some merging steps involved that can be quite erroneous.

My ideas to solve this:

• Have a specific editor that refreshes its content when the used resource changes (this can be timeconsuming);
• Or close the editors of the file and reopen them (this is ugly in the eye of the user).

Since the Luna release of eclipse there's no need to reload files with F5/manual Refresh.

Really nice, especially as there was a bug with the F5 key binding.