How to Change Default Eclipse Preferences

1. Open a clean install of Eclipse and configure it from top to bottom.
2. Export all preferences to an .epf file.
3. Edit the resulting .epf file to remove the /instance/ prefix from all property names.
4. Rename the .epf to preferences.ini and put it into <your_path>/eclipse.
5. 1. Launch Eclipse with -plugincustomization preferences.ini.
   2. Add to eclipse.ini before -vmargs:

      -pluginCustomization
      <your_path>/eclipse/preferences.ini