Bug 30829

Summary:	Text Editors need more powerful functionality, like in EditPlus
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Marcio <mqm>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Marcio

2003-02-03 13:31:12 EST

The Eclipse text editors could use some improvement by implementing some of 
teh functionalities available in similar editors, like EditPlus for example 
(www.editplus.com)

Some examples, from the menus:

-ruler on/off to show columns
-Line Comment/Line Uncomment
-replace tabs with spaces.
-show/hide visual representation for CR/LF and TABs
-change case of the selection (to upper, to lower)
-Insert->Date, time, etc
-regex support in find/replace
-word wrap on/off
...

Many of these features would be useful in any text editors, while others would 
be useful in a text editor geared towards programming. I believe the Eclipse 
framework needs such text editor, to provide these extra options that will be 
useful for any programming language plugin (PHP, Perl, Eiffel, Pascal, etc). 
It does not make sense to have each plugin recode all this.

Comment 1 Kai-Uwe Maetzel

2003-02-06 11:22:03 EST

Post 2.1

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2007-06-22 09:59:15 EDT

Get rid of deprecated state.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:09:02 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.