Question

I use the Eclipse keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O all the time (Organize Imports).

However, it has one particularly annoying behavior:

If I have any static imports like:

import static java.lang.Math.*;

Organize Imports will “helpfully” replace it with static imports of only the fields and methods I am actually using. For example:

import static java.lang.Math.PI;
import static java.lang.Math.cos;

Is there any way to remove just this behavior from Organize Imports?

Answer 1

Sure: Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Organize Imports

Adjust the value for "Number of static imports needed for .*" to 1, and it will always use .*. Of course, that’s not quite the same as saying, “Just leave static imports alone” but hopefully it’s what you want.

Basically, this number says “Use all of the methods or fields of this import if I’m importing this many items” So if the number is 2, it will add the asterisk only if you use two or more imports. That will fix the problem you said in the response.