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Class org.eclipse.ui.actions.TextActionHandler is very useful in generic workbench (non-IDE) applications. For example, form-based editors can use it to support global clipboard actions in their text fields while providing custom actions for non-text controls. However, this class is at this moment (including M4) in the IDE plugin. Yet the only IDE dependencies it seems to have are those referencing labels and help context IDs. Would it be possible to refactor this class in such a way that it'd be possible to use it in non-IDE applications? Thanks!
In order to fix this up properly, the help context ids would have to be retrieved from the handling actions (configured via setCutAction etc). The generic workbench can't provide appropriate help -- it doesn't even describe the menu structure of the application, as is done in the current IDE-specific help topics. If this routing can't be done automatically, then API should be added to allow the client to specify the help context ids to use. Since the API freeze is next week, we will not be able to address this for 3.2.
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Hmm, we now have three TextActionHandler classes. Perhaps reuse would be worthwhile! org.eclipse.ui.actions org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions
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