Bug 575383

Summary:	A mouse action to add a caret into editor
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Mickael Istria <mistria>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Mickael Istria <mistria>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	sarika.sinha
Version:	4.21	Keywords:	noteworthy
Target Milestone:	4.22 M1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt/+/185731 https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/commit/?id=5b4b50264e68ba3ac3c0881431bc4175bb93aa12
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Bug Depends on:	466532
Bug Blocks:

Description Mickael Istria

2021-08-12 11:41:09 EDT

When bug 466532 is done, the text viewers/editors should provide a mouse action to add a caret for edition. Something like Alt+Click or Ctrl+Middle button.

Comment 1 Mickael Istria

2021-09-14 09:51:12 EDT

So Alt+Click is the one used by VSCode and seems to be free for TextViewer et al.
Any objection against using that? Should we add it to StyledText (so all StyledText now become capable of multi-carets by user decision), or to TextViewer, or somewhere else?

Comment 2 Sarika Sinha

2021-09-15 03:30:16 EDT

Alt + Click sounds good. As the Multi Caret support exists in StyledText, mouse action can be added to this.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2021-09-23 06:22:54 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt/+/185731

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2021-09-23 17:17:09 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt/+/185731 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/commit/?id=5b4b50264e68ba3ac3c0881431bc4175bb93aa12

Comment 5 Mickael Istria

2021-09-23 17:28:02 EDT

Done. One can now use Alt+Click on any StyledText to add a caret.

Comment 6 Sarika Sinha

2021-10-01 03:41:14 EDT

Can we highlight the "Select All" button and add the image in N&N ?
It's a cool thing and can get unnoticed without the image.

Is Alt+Click enough or we should mention Option+Click also?