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Could we have a hotkey for re-launching the last External Tool? (ala Ctrl+F11/F11)
I think it would be better to allow the user to specify an accelerator to use for a specific external tool.
I like that idea even better.
A cheap alternative to adding a separate dialog field for this would be to allow the name to contain the accelerator syntax for JFace actions. E.g. "SomeTool@Ctrl+Alt+T" would add an item with Ctrl+Alt+T as its accelerator. Would get this for free if we used MenuManager and Action to populate the External Tools menu. This is probably all we could achieve for 2.0.
In the new external tool work, there will be a Run Last Tool menu item and some accelerator key assign to it (we are thinking of ctrl+shift+r) Note: new external tool work is not yet released to the head stream and won't for a while yet.
Reopening.
With the introduction of launch configs - the launch history now appears similar to the run/debug history. You get number accelerators for tools in your history and favorites. However, we do not have a way to assign hot keys. Should investigate if the new key binding story will allow the user to assign keys to the launch history. markig as 2.1 M4 for investigation.
Moving to M5
We have not come up with a way to assign a key binding for the launch history but I see light for allowing the user to assign a key binding for relaunch last.
It is now possible to assign a key sequence to the Run Last External Tool. Please see bug 29580 for launch history key sequence assigment.
Please verify (DarinW). The default binding is to nothing (you have to set it to work...I used F9 in the global space).
Verified.
