There is a great article about the Buildship project providing “deep integration of Gradle into Eclipse”. True, the plugin is great and gives you all the means to run your project from within the IDE. The only downside is the build script editor, or rather the lack of it.

The build script is treated as a plain text file

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Install the Minimalist Gradle Editor and things start to look much better.

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Don’t forget to set the Minimalist editor as the default one (Eclipse > Preferences).

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