title: How to automatically import eclipse editor preferences that were previously exported?
body: <p>I have a similar problem to this guy: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/881655/importing-exporting-project-preferences">Importing/Exporting Project Preferences</a>, but my problem is worse, I need to create a new workspace (i.e. new base directory) for every program or version that I work on.  I have some common preferences (formatter, font size, etc) that I have exported to a file, which I then import every time I create a new workspace, but would like to skip the step of manually importing the .epf file.  Has anybody seen an easy way to automate this?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: to help potential respondents answer the question, here is my workflow for handling a bug patch.  Perhaps I'm doing something wrong in general that you could correct (since I've only been using Eclipse for a couple of years and tend to prefer emacs so I haven't spent a lot of time learning new Eclipse features)?</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Create new directory for the workspace.</li>
  <li>Start Eclipse editor and open clean workspace.</li>
  <li>Check out a CVS directory containing .psf files for the various programs (necessary because of a pre-existing CVS tree structure that does not play nice with Eclipse).</li>
  <li>Use team import on the .psf file associated with the program I'm working on to pull in the necessary projects.</li>
  <li>Switch all projects to the branch tag associated with the release in question.</li>
  <li>Work...</li>
  </ol>