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Build Identifier: M20100211-1343 I prefer to use the keyboard as much as possible, and as efficiently as possible (I'm not handicapped, I just consider the mouse a handicap :) ). That's why it's annoying when a series of steps I have to go through can't be done easily from the keyboard. I'm often in a situation where my focus is in the editor view, and the search view is visible, and I want to go to the next occurrence from the search view. Right now, I have to go to the search view and execute the "Next" command, which goes to the next search occurrence. There is already a key bound to put the focus in the search view, so I could press that key, and then Ctrl+. to go to the next occurrence. That works, but it would be better if the "Next" command in the search view could be globally bound, so I could press a key in the editor view which would bring me to the next search occurrence. On a side point, I use the Emacs+ plugin, which now has the ability to record keyboard macros. I technically could record a macro consisting of the two key sequences, the first to put the focus in the search view, and the second to go to the next occurrence. Unfortunately, because of some oddity to how the "Show View" command works in Eclipse, when I execute "Show View (View: Search)" from within an Emacs+ keyboard macro, it just brings up the "Show View" dialog, allowing me to select the view I want (which doesn't work in a macro). The key I have bound to "Show View (View: Search)" works perfectly fine when not inside an Emacs+ keyboard macro. I've sent a comment about this last point to the Emacs+ maintainer. Reproducible: Always
You can use Ctrl+. and Ctrl+, to step through the editor annotations. Which annotations are caught can be configured in the Next/Previous Annotation toolbar drop down.
I'm confused. I suggest you read the original description again. This has nothing to do with stepping through editor annotations. I'm trying to step through the search locations found in the search view, but I'm trying to do that from the editor view. That's why this is an enhancement request.
Got it: you also want to switch to the next editor globally, similar to bug 115202.
Exactly. I'd go so far as to say that this bug I entered is a duplicate of that. It's sad to see that this functionality has been wanted for 5 years now.
See experiment in bug 328460 PW
I now have this functionality by utilizing a saved keyboard macro with the Emacs+ plugin. I described this implementation at <http://davidmichaelkarr.blogspot.com/2010/10/keyboard-nirvana-with-eclipse-and-emacs.html>.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
