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Create a clean workspace. Open eclipse. Open maven indexes view. Change the central index url to point at a local nexus instance. Click save. See that the central index is being downloaded from repo1.maven.org and not the url i just set.
Further, it seemed that sometimes the url wasn't saved as more than once i closed eclipse and when i reopened it, the url was again set to repo1.maven.org and not nexus.
Brian, I can't reproduce this.
Can you please confirm that there is NO background jobs running when you editing indexes. Recently downloads from repo1.maven.org are quite slow and it might be that you were seeing index update job started on Eclipse startup. It might be possible that such long running job overwrites your index edits upon its completion.