Summary: | Severe annoyance - editor hostile take-over of cursor selection causes typing to overwrite other code | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Jonathan Neufeld <Jonathan.Neufeld> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | daniel_megert, remy.suen |
Version: | 3.4 | Keywords: | usability |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows XP | ||
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Description
Jonathan Neufeld
2008-08-15 16:35:17 EDT
Does this happen in all types of editors? If not, what editor are you using (Java, C/C++, PHP, something else?)? I see the 'OS' of this bug is set to 'All', which operating systems have you tested (and presumably reproduced) this problem on? Apologies, this occurs using the Java EE Ganymede version of Eclipse and with Windows XP. (In reply to comment #2) > Apologies, this occurs using the Java EE Ganymede version of Eclipse and with > Windows XP. Thanks, Jonathan. And which editors are causing this problem? Does this happen on a new workspace? When did this start happening? Do you remember anything in particular that you did before and after this started happening? I realize what causes this behaviour is enabling the "Link open editors with content in the Navigator" feature (icon button on Project Explorer of two golden arrows pointing opposite directions). When I turned this off, this behaviour stops. So therefore this is a usability issue rather than a bug, the behavior is consistent. Further description: The editor seems to "grab" the cursor and highlight the nearest method or field definition as the ancillary action to linking the outline / project explorer with editor content. Passing to Platform Text (or would this be JDT Text?). >Passing to Platform Text (or would this be JDT Text?). None of them ;-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 237830 *** |