Bug 81461

Summary:	[console] needs key to clear
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tom Roche <tlroche>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Paul Pazderski <paul-eclipse>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	codeuniv, curtis.windatt.public, pawel.1.piech, remy.suen, robert.roth.off, sarika.sinha
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	bugday
Target Milestone:	4.17 M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/163168 https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.debug.git/commit/?id=57d79764eaace00697da31d84379a04ff27042c0 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566192
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Bug Blocks:	560229

Description Tom Roche

2004-12-16 15:30:00 EST

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Tom Roche Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:52:32 -0500
>> Is there a keychord that performs the same action as clicking the
>> little eraser on the Console view?

Kevin Barnes <krbarnes@ca.ibm.com> Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:32:14 -0600
> the clear console is not mapped to any key binding. I'd recommend
> that you file a bug against Platform-Debug.

Comment 1 Darin Wright

2004-12-17 12:20:56 EST

Suggest to add command with no key-binding. Users can assign a binding as 
desired. (I don't know of a standard "clear" key).

Comment 2 Darin Wright

2005-03-29 11:51:03 EST

Deferred

Comment 3 Curtis Windatt

2008-04-21 15:22:49 EDT

Reopening to mark as bugday

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2020-05-18 03:58:23 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/163168

Comment 5 Paul Pazderski

2020-05-24 07:32:31 EDT

*** Bug 533460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2020-06-30 11:51:19 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform.debug/+/163168 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.debug.git/commit/?id=57d79764eaace00697da31d84379a04ff27042c0

Comment 7 Paul Pazderski

2020-06-30 11:53:52 EDT

(In reply to Darin Wright from comment #1)
> I don't know of a standard "clear" key

Command was added without default binding but the common key I know from consoles is Ctrl+L.

Comment 8 Paul Pazderski

2020-07-08 11:52:48 EDT

Verified in Eclipse SDK

Version: 2020-09 (4.17)
Build id: I20200708-0600


And one correction to my last comment. I actually merged the variant with binding so Ctrl+L in console view now clears the console.

Comment 9 Sarika Sinha

2020-08-20 06:49:19 EDT

Reopened because of Bug 566192.

@Paul, Will you be fixing this for RC1 ? 
Else please move to 4.18.

Comment 10 Sarika Sinha

2020-11-17 00:22:08 EST

@Paul,
Will you be taking this up for 4.18 ?

Comment 11 Sarika Sinha

2020-11-26 02:27:38 EST

@Paul!
What is the plan for this bug? Please re target it accordingly.

Comment 12 Paul Pazderski

2020-11-26 04:47:04 EST

I would leave it as it is. The main request, "need key to clear", is fulfilled. Working, just without a default binding.

For the problem in bug 566192 I'm not even sure if the root cause is in Debug or UI.