LiClipse provides a new experience for Eclipse users

With it, users get out of the box:

A fast editor supporting many languages out of the box. View supported languages

Support for TextMate Bundles. View TextMate Bundles Integration

A simple way to add support for a new language

Usability improvements for all Eclipse editors featuring:

Multiple cursors



Vertical indent guides



Themed scrollbars



Improved text search capabilities (with Lucene index-based searching, support for external folders, open editors and additional filtering on results page)

HTML preview for the RST, Markdown and HTML editors

Native installers

Improved theming support based on Eclipse 4 improvements





Release Highlights for LiClipse 7.0.0

Updated PyDev to 8.0.0.

Improvements in Mypy integration.



Debugger improvements (especially in the frame evaluation mode).



Improvements to type inference from type annotations.



Test running fixes with nose and binary output.



Code completion inside f-strings.

Release Highlights for LiClipse 6.3.0

Updated PyDev to 7.7.0.

Improvements dealing with typing information



Improvements in Mypy integration.



Improvements in PyLint integration.



Fixes for dealing with latest pytest.



Fixes for dealing with latest cython.



Support for namespace packages.

Updated EGit.

Bundled java updated to OpenJDK 14.

View highlights for previous releases

Supported languages feature syntax highlighting, template completion, outline, select/deselect scope, comment/uncomment, auto-indent, linked edition, multi-edition, mark occurrences, among others.

As a note, some editors have improved support:

The HTML editor has advanced context-based code-completion

The HTML, XML and JavaScript editors have code-analysis and code-formatting features

Usability improvements for all Eclipse editors

At this point, the major improvements are multi-edition and vertical indent guides, supporting all editors (such as PyDev, JDT, etc).

See: Multi-Edition Video for details

Besides the multi-edition (which can be triggered in a Ctrl+K search or with the mouse with Ctrl+Alt+Mouse Click), the rectangular edit is also improved to be triggered with Alt+Click (and stopped with escape).

Bundling of other useful plugins

Eclipse has a myriad of useful plugins, and LiClipse bundles some which are considered to be useful regardless of which language you're dealing with: Eclipse Color Theme, StartExplorer, AnyEdit and PyDev (note that PyDev does not follow the rule of being useful for everyone as the other plugins, but LiClipse itself reuses parts of the PyDev codebase).