Bug 561826

Summary:

Use correct undo/redo keybinding for Emacs key preferences

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Andrew Obuchowicz <aobuchow>

Component:

Assignee:

Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

loskutov

Version:

4.15

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

552208

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Emacs undo keybinding in Eclipse IDE	none
Emacs redo keybinding in Eclipse IDE	none

Description Andrew Obuchowicz

2020-04-06 10:57:47 EDT

As an Emacs user, it's bothered me since I started using Eclipse that the Emacs key bindings don't have the correct key binding for undo/redo.

By default, undo in Emacs is invoked with CTRL + /, see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Undo.html

A popular package for Emacs is undo-tree.el, which binds redo to CTRL + ?, see http://www.dr-qubit.org/undo-tree/undo-tree.el under Quick Start.

IMO, at the very least, a keybinding for the undo command in the Emacs keybindings should be CTRL + / as this is the default. Ideally, CTRL + ? should redo. 

I'm willing to submit a patch for this, as it gets tedious to re-input these keybindings when creating a fresh workspace. Also, this is important to ease the adoption of Eclipse from Emacs users.

Comment 1 Andrew Obuchowicz

2020-04-06 10:59:10 EDT

I might have targeted the wrong component with this bug, if so, someone is free to retarget it to the correct component. 
Thanks.

Comment 2 Andrew Obuchowicz

2020-04-06 11:48:45 EDT

Created attachment 282354 [details]
Emacs undo keybinding in Eclipse IDE

Comment 3 Andrew Obuchowicz

2020-04-06 11:49:26 EDT

Created attachment 282355 [details]
Emacs redo keybinding in Eclipse IDE