Bug 130938 - On command line invocation, should open existing instance
Summary: On command line invocation, should open existing instance
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 4922
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2006-03-08 11:46 EST by Rick Rodman CLA
Modified: 2006-03-08 15:30 EST (History)
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Description Rick Rodman CLA 2006-03-08 11:46:37 EST 
If you have Eclipse running already (which you should, it takes a long time to load), and you enter on a command line: eclipse filename.txt, right now you get an error message that Eclipse is already running, and it exits. What it ought to do is open the file in the existing Eclipse instance. I've written this in C (Win32 SDK) applications and it's not hard, but for a platform-independent package it will likely be more difficult.  Still, I'm a command-line user and it would make things much more convenient.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2006-03-08 15:30:35 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4922 ***