Problems with Android XML Editor and Eclipse…Hard to manually edit XML

Question

It\'s been a few years since I have last developed android apps. Since then, a graphical editor was added to Eclipse that allows you to generate the XML for an layout in a

Answer 1

The issue I face, which is demo-ed here (not posted by me) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnOesjL1IE, is fixed by disabling "Automatically format the XML edited by the visual layout editor". The formatting for layout XML is gone for sure, but at least I can edit the file properly.

Answer 2

I found workaround(fix). Redefine shortcuts for copy and paste in preferences->Keys to some other key combinations, then standard cmd-c cmd-v will start work. I did not had issues with delete, but it may work for other key issues. I am on mac so not tested on windows.