Bug 186147 - Provide an external program to run commands in a running Eclipse instance (like gnuclient)
Summary: Provide an external program to run commands in a running Eclipse instance (li...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178927
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Framework (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: equinox.framework-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2007-05-09 09:28 EDT by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2007-05-12 18:25 EDT (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-05-09 09:28:04 EDT 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #183266 +++

Eclipse should support an external small program like gnuclient that takes commands, finds an existing Eclipse instance and performs the commands in that instance.

The background of this request is bug #183266: The Remote System view allows the user to open any file on the local file system using an Eclipse editor, and to do a compare on any two files in the local file system using the Eclipse compare tool.

I was wondering if this could be added to the Windows Explorer shell context menu, so you could just select any two files in Windows Explorer, right click and choose "Eclipse - Compare" and if Eclipse were not open it would open and compare them, and if it were open a new compare editor would open and Eclipse would gain focus.
Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk CLA 2007-05-09 10:41:15 EDT 
This is related to bugs 4922 and 178927. I tried hacking up a solution 178927 but it's very incomplete and something more generic would be nice.
Comment 2 Thomas Watson CLA 2007-05-10 10:14:52 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178927 ***