Bug 558680

Summary:

Move Lines Up/Down moves cursor within lines and changes selection

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Chris Jordan <chrisjj>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

cdtdoug, jonah, zeratul976

Version:

4.10

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

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Description Chris Jordan

2019-12-29 17:55:04 EST

1 On 

    float mule(vec3 v) { return v.x*v.y*v.z; }

double click vec3: https://i.imgur.com/4BjfIUQ.png

2 Press the key for Move Lines Down or Up.

Expected: Cursor position and selection retained within line
Observed: Cursor moved to col 1 and selection extended to whole line: https://i.imgur.com/2tZa7HB.png

Comment 1 Chris Jordan

2019-12-29 17:56:52 EST

Created attachment 281351 [details]
See text.

Comment 2 Chris Jordan

2019-12-29 18:01:24 EST

Created attachment 281352 [details]
See text.

Comment 3 Chris Jordan

2019-12-29 18:02:41 EST

PS I can find no user documentation on these commands so expectation is based solely on what I judge would be most useful.

Comment 4 Nathan Ridge

2019-12-29 20:21:09 EST

The relevant code lives in org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.MoveLinesAction.