Bug 88451

Summary: [Navigator] [EditorMgmt] Link with Editor does not work properly with editors not using [I]FileEditorInput
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component: UIAssignee: Francis Upton IV <francisu>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 87288    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Nick Edgar CLA 2005-03-18 08:46:20 EST 
build I20050315

There is a limitation in how the mappings from IFile to an existing open editor
is done (used for Link With Editor in the Navigator).
Previously it was doing:
  page.findEditor(new FileEditorInput(file))
Now, in addition to this, it iterates over the editors checking whether:
  file.equals(ResourceUtil.getFile(editor.getEditorInput());

However, in order to avoid forcing materialization of editors restored from the
previous session, it skips those that haven't been materialized.

So for IFile-based editors not using [I]FileEditorInput, editor linking will not
work properly for unmaterialized editors.
I don't see a better approach to this at this time.

See bug 87288 for more background.
Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:14:49 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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