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Build ID: M20080911-1700 Steps To Reproduce: N/A (enhancement request) More information: It would be helpful if Eclipse's Emacs key binding mode supported standard Emacs key bindings for command commands to switch between windows and buffers. Key ones are: - "Ctrl-x 2" (split window), presumably creating a new editor stack and opening a new editor (on the some file in whose editor the command was issued) (This would directly support editing/seeing different parts of the same file at the same time in Emacs' keep- your-fingers-on-the-main-keyboard-mode.) - "Ctrl-x b" (switch-to-buffer), presumably first presenting a list of the files currently open in editors in any editor stack and then editing the selected file in the current stack (possibly opening a new editor if there's not already an editor for that file in the current stack). (This would support seeing/editing two different files.) - "Ctrl-o" (other-window), switching focus to current (top-most) editor in the next stack (being no-op if there is only one stack). (This would support jumping back and forth between editing two simultaneously-displayed files.) - "Ctrl-x 0" (that's a zero) (delete-window), presumably deleting the current editor stack after moving its editors to the other (or next) editor stack (being no-op when there's only one editor stack). - "Ctrl-x 1" (delete-other-windows), presumbly deleting editor stacks other than the current one, after moving all their editors to the current stack (being a no-op when there's only one editor stack). Note that Eclipse's Emacs mode already supports kill-buffer on the current buffer, "Ctrl-x k" and then "Return" in Emacs, although Eclipse doesn't quite implement it consistently with Emacs.
Most of this behavior is now available in the current release of the Emacs+ plugin. [Ctrl-X 0 will be added soon). See: http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=1442 The relevant portion from the doc reads: Split window behavior - Adapt the Emacs notion of window splitting to the eclipse editor stack * Split Horizontally (Ctrl-X 2): Split the editor stack horizontally and put the current editor below the others o When the split editor preference is checked (default), the current editor is split and placed below itself * Split Vertically (Ctrl-X 3): Split the editor stack vertically and put the current editor beside the others o When the split editor preference is checked (default), the current editor is split and placed beside itself * Join Window (Ctrl-X 1): Join a previously split editor window to the (upper left) editor stack o When the split editor preference is checked (default), duplicate instances of the editor are closed Window navigation - * Other Window (Ctrl-X O): Navigate to the previous editor window * Backwards Other Window (Ctrl+U Ctrl-X O): Navigate to the oldest previous editor window BTW, this bug is a close relative of: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8009
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