Description Jan Matèrne 2005-11-25 11:14:27 EST

I read a hint [1] that I could compress the visibility of package names in the package explorer - e.g. from org.eclipse.jdt with "1." to o.e.jdt (setting in Window > Preferences > Java > Appearance > Compress all packages...)

It would be fine to specify substitution patterns
E.g.
  org.eclipse.jdt + s/org.eclipse/eclipse --> eclipse.jdt
  org.eclipse.jdt + s/*.eclipse.*/$2 --> jdt
  com.company.application.view.util + s/*.application.*/$2 --> view.util
with the ability to specify multiple patterns.

The advantage would be to compress multiple package names and substitute a long package name by a shorter meaningful name. As the 3rd example shows the more important name is not always the last package name.

Eclipse
* Version: 3.1.0
* Build id: I20050627-1435


[1] http://www.vasanth.in/PermaLink,guid,a9559474-cc61-47c4-b64d-27c6564c51ec.aspx