Preview tab for Eclipse Wikitext

Question

I used to be able to get a preview tab for Eclipse WikiText documents in Linux but in Neon it no longer appears. Is it possible to enable it for a Markdown file?

Answer 1

I can not reproduce your problem in my Eclipse Neon. It works as expected:

1) have you opened the file with the appropriate Editor?

2) Is wikitext installed in your Eclipse?

In the "Eclipse Installation Details" windows (open it with the Help Menu), do you see the WikiText plugins?

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For Ubuntu (as discussed in Bug 496323)

3) Is libwebkitgtk 3.0 installed?

Without libwebkitgtk the preview tab is missing:

Run

sudo apt install libwebkitgtk-3.0-0

Then everything works as expected:

Answer 2

Per Jonathan's comment, the GTK webkit dependency must be installed, e.g.

sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-3.0-0