Bug 31406

Summary: "Link Package Explorer selection to active editor" preference is missing
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Tom Mutdosch <mutdosch>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Tom Mutdosch CLA 2003-02-08 13:53:52 EST 
Using the 2.1 M5 driver, the Java preferences (under the Link settings:) no
longer show the option for "Link Package Explorer selection to active editor". 
This was there in M4, but is not there in M5 (unless it has moved; though I
looked and couldn't find it).  

This is a very useful feature, and I imagine that the preference just isn't
showing up in M5, rather than that the functionality was purposely removed.
Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2003-02-09 06:50:29 EST 
This was removed on purpose since there is now a new function Show in...

But there is already a PR that requests the feature back.
Comment 2 Tom Mutdosch CLA 2003-02-09 13:06:51 EST 
Ok, I understand now why it was initially taken out.  I see the two really as
separate functions.  The "Show in..." feature is nice if you want to show an
editor in any of a number of different views.  You would do this as the need
arises, probably infrequently.  But the "Link package explorer..." is nice if
that is your main view and you always want that view and the editors to be
synchronized.  (As it is now, if I wanted this functionality, I would have to do
a "Show in..." each time I changed my editor.)

The functionalities could possibly be combined.  The "Show in..." could have a
user-defined default view that it automatically shows in.  And you could still
manually do a "Show in..." for any other views that you were interested in.
Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2003-02-10 11:17:11 EST 
The discussion about this takes place in bug 30002. Please add comments to this 
bug.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30002 ***