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I find it difficult to know the name of the file I am editing. While it is indeed available at several places, none of them is really obvious: - The tab on the editor folder is usually abbreviated to the first four letters with ellipses, because I usually have quite a few files open - The package explorer/hierarchy doesn't make it readily apparent (and sometimes, it scrolls off anyway) - Same remark for the Outline view: if you have a lot of methods/fields/imports, the name of the class quickly scrolls out of view I would love to have the name of the current buffer at a constant location, maybe at the bottom right, near the "Writable | Insert | Line:Column" labels.
Ajusting priority. Post 2.0
Reopened for investigation
I second this request (if that's what you do with bugs :)). In my current workspace I have two branches of the same project, so when working on file X from project A, and file X from project B, I find that I have to move the mouse and hover to know which one I'm editing. In the package explorer, the project name is expanded out of view, so that doesn't help. I think this feature might could be expanded to include display of metadata from any view that supplied that information (on the editor it would be the filename).
Eclipse 20021213 A new view was introduced (Window>Show view>Other>Basic>Editors) that may provide some relief for your issues. If realestate (sp) is a big issue you can set the view so it sorts by MRU (most recently used) and then make the view so it is only one file high. You can then set the option to see the full path name. Then the file name will always be in one location, wherever you chose to dock the view (maybe below the default tasks view location).
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The editor view workaround is not a half-bad solution, except that I need know not just the filename but the project the file is in. I have three projects in my view all of which have different versions of the same (or mostly the same) files. I can "Show Full Name" to get the project the file is associated with, but this then pushes the filename out of the view. Incidentally, the Editor view doesn't remember the "Show Full Name" setting. The filename - project/src folder info is displayed in the status bar when the file is selected in the Package Explorer view... Would the eclipse guys consider a patch (this is one I think I can do), or is the solution to this contained in a set of larger fixes?
The format of the output in the status line displayed when selecting files in the package explorer is specific to the java environment. Moving to JDT Text for their input. Bug 29410 will address the issue of the view and dropdown list not remembering the "Show Full Name" setting
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Regarding comment #7 The Java views show the fully qualified name of the selection with the containing project as a suffix. In the Java editor the status line is used for dynamic messages and showing the name of the edited file there would not be useful. Moving to platform-ui since this is a general editor management issue.
It's more "classical" to use the window title for fully quallifed name instead of using the status bar. That's indeed what most editors does, at least on Windows (expl: all Microsoft apllication like Excell or Word, Ultra Edit, etc.). And there is good reason for that : 1. That's the place where you have the more space on a window. 2. That's esier to visualize that in the task bar. 3. This title is used by the window manager for different things like switching between windows, iconize, etc. If you have one window per project, it could be usefull to see the project name in the window title for those operations.
While the cursor is in the text editor and there's nothing better to display in the status line, why not display the full path there? Also it would be nice if the context menu for all text editors (plain text, java comp unit, etc.) would include a "Properties" menu at the end. Especially with back-linking disabled. I'll enter that as a separate enh request if there's not one already.
Added bug 32573 for the properties menu enhancement mentioned in comment #12.
I totally agree with comment <a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20669#c12">12</a>. Regarding comment <a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20669#c10">10</a> I just don't believe the display of the filename (and the project path) would conflict with messages from editor. Just make the filename the low priority consumer of the status line instead of blank space. A number of editors have this very same functionality, EditPad for instance (since that happens to be what I'm using at the moment). I think the utility of this enhancement is obvious given my <a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20669#c3">previous comment</a>
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Moving Dougs bugs
Given that the filename is now displayed in both the window title and in the tab (and wont be abbreviated by ellipsis) I'm inclined to close this. Please reopen if you don't agree.
We're shipping IDE's based on Eclipse and have had several customers ask for this feature. There is currently no way to get the full file system path of a file being edited. The window title and tab only show you the filename, which isn't much help if you have mutliple files of the same name in the workspace. The tooltip on the editor tab gives you the workspace relative path, but for many people this isn't enough. For one it's an extra step. Plus you have to use the mouse. Then there are those people that don't even know what this relative path means. Most of our users create projects outside of the workspace and get confused when trying to put together what the full file system path is. The status line is mostly unused by editors. Most editors use it to display annotations. When no annotation is at the cursor, nothing is displayed in the status line. Why not display the full file system path in the status line by default (I guess in EditorPart), then any editors can override this default behavior as they see fit? I think to ask each individual editor to do this if they want would only cause inconsistencies. I opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=179127 against the CDT editor, but it was (wisely) pointed out that this wouldn't fit with other Eclipse editors. I don't see a way to reopen this but I think it should be strongly considered.
Reopening to reassign
Boris, could you throw your two cents in on this one?
(In reply to comment #19) > ... The window title and tab only show you the filename, which > isn't much help if you have mutliple files of the same name in the workspace. The window title shows the full (workspace-relative) path. > The status line is mostly unused by editors. Yes, but trim space is a scarce resource, and I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to show the full path in the status line whenever the editor does not show a specific message. Currently, placing the cursor within an error or warning will show details in the status line, and users can notice the change in the UI easily because the status line was previously blank. If we ended up showing information all the time, we would lose this. BTW, by passing -showLocation as a command line argument, Eclipse will show the workspace location in the window title, in addition to the path of the file being edited. I understand that this still does not give you what you want since apparently your users frequently use projects that are not part of the workspace. So perhaps we should show the full path instead of the workspace-relative path and the workspace location?
(In reply to comment #22) > The window title shows the full (workspace-relative) path. Sorry, I'm using 3.2.1 so maybe it's been changed in a newer build. > > The status line is mostly unused by editors. > Yes, but trim space is a scarce resource, and I'm not sure if it would be a > good idea to show the full path in the status line whenever the editor does not > show a specific message. Currently, placing the cursor within an error or > warning will show details in the status line, and users can notice the change > in the UI easily because the status line was previously blank. If we ended up > showing information all the time, we would lose this. OK, fair enough. > BTW, by passing -showLocation as a command line argument, Eclipse will show the > workspace location in the window title, in addition to the path of the file > being edited. I understand that this still does not give you what you want > since apparently your users frequently use projects that are not part of the > workspace. So perhaps we should show the full path instead of the > workspace-relative path and the workspace location? This sounds like a fair compromise. Plenty of editors use the window title for this purpose so it's pretty consistent, and won't affect the status line. +1 from me.
As it turns out, this is not as simple as I thought. In the window title, we display whatever the current editor sets as their tooltip text. Java and text editors show the workspace-relative path, other editors might show something else. Because of this, we cannot easily change the window title to show the full path instead of the workspace-relative path. Any ideas?
It looks like the tooltip text comes from IEditorInput#getToolTipText. Unfortunately this interface is implemented by a lot of classes. It looks like the main classes of interest though are FileEditorInput and JavaFileEditorInput. Maybe we could change getToolTipText for these classes to be something like this: public String getToolTipText() { IPath location = file.getLocation(); if (location != null) { return location.makeRelative().toString(); } return file.getFullPath().makeRelative().toString(); }
(In reply to comment #25) > ... It looks like > the main classes of interest though are FileEditorInput and > JavaFileEditorInput. Please file individual bugs against Platform/IDE and JDT/UI for this. I'm closing this bug, it's just not useful anymore given its age and the number of different things that have been requested. See comment #22 for how you can get the full path and the workspace location into the window title area.
