This is the bug to follow if you want to be aware/involved in progress toward full support of Eclipse 4.2 by SWTBot: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=385527
Please report any issue with Eclipse 4.2 as a dependency of this bug. Patches are welcome and will quickly get integrated if they're good.

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Mickael Istria
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