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Using the 2.1 M5 driver, the Java preferences (under the Link settings:) no longer show the option for "Link Package Explorer selection to active editor". This was there in M4, but is not there in M5 (unless it has moved; though I looked and couldn't find it). This is a very useful feature, and I imagine that the preference just isn't showing up in M5, rather than that the functionality was purposely removed.
This was removed on purpose since there is now a new function Show in... But there is already a PR that requests the feature back.
Ok, I understand now why it was initially taken out. I see the two really as separate functions. The "Show in..." feature is nice if you want to show an editor in any of a number of different views. You would do this as the need arises, probably infrequently. But the "Link package explorer..." is nice if that is your main view and you always want that view and the editors to be synchronized. (As it is now, if I wanted this functionality, I would have to do a "Show in..." each time I changed my editor.) The functionalities could possibly be combined. The "Show in..." could have a user-defined default view that it automatically shows in. And you could still manually do a "Show in..." for any other views that you were interested in.
The discussion about this takes place in bug 30002. Please add comments to this bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30002 ***