Bug 33628 [Preferences] provide API for showing a specified preference page
There is no way for a plugin to open the (workbench) preference dialog with a certain peference page selected. Enabling this would allow plugins to refer the user to a certain preference page, for example when a misconfiguration is detected during execution of an action. Also this enables developers to write a new search panel to find a text in the preference pages and get the user right there. A method select(IPreferencePage page), select(IPreferenceNode node) or select(String path) in org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog would help.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/preference/PreferenceDialog.java
.format(
														"PreferenceDialog.saveErrorMessage", new Object[]{page.getTitle(), e.getMessage()})); 
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Notifies that the window's close button was pressed, the close menu was
	 * selected, or the ESCAPE key pressed.
	 * <p>
	 * The default implementation of this framework method sets the window's
	 * return code to <code>CANCEL</code> and closes the window using
	 * <code>close</code>. Subclasses may extend or reimplement.
	 * </p>
	 */
	protected void handleShellCloseEvent() {
		
		cancelPressed();
	}
	/**
	 * Notifies of the pressing of the Help button.
	 * <p>
	 * The default implementation of this framework method calls
	 * <code>performHelp</code> on the currently active page.
	 * </p>
	 */
	protected void helpPressed() {
		if (currentPage != null) {
			currentPage.performHelp();