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Build Identifier: I20100527-1700 Please add shortcuts (2-0) to the first 9 items of the quick fix menu (Ctrl-1). All of them should work with and without Ctrl. Automatically assign "1" to the item which you used the last time (useful during code cleanup when you do a lot of the same stuff again and again). Alternatively, assign alphabetic shortcuts based on the displayed names. Reproducible: Always
I agree that something like this could be helpful, but just assigning 1, 2, 3, etc. doesn't work. After you pressed Ctrl+1, the editor still has focus and accepts keys, so hijacking 1-9 would be confusing. And I don't want to reserve all the Ctrl+<Number> shortcuts for this. Maybe we could do something with mnemonics (Alt+1 .. Alt+9), but that wouldn't work on the Mac. Note that many of the quick fixes and quick assists are already commands, which you can bind on Preferences > General > Keys, e.g. to "Ctrl+2, 1", "Ctrl+2, 2", etc. If you miss a command for a quick fix, please speak up. The Quick Access popup (Ctrl+3) could also help you if you know you'll need the same command a few times in a row: Type "quick assist", invoke the command you want, and after that, "Ctrl+3, Enter" invokes the most recently used command. I'll keep the bug open in case someone has a better idea for shortcuts.
Can you at least map "Ctrl+1" twice to repeat the last quick fix? Also mapping Ctrl+2...9 for the other action might work since the user could simply keep the key pressed. Since (s)he can see the Quick Fix open, the "stealing" would become more of a technical side effect (instead of an unexpected behavior).
The second Ctrl+1 is already taken: When you press Ctrl+1 on a line with an error, but with the caret outside the error range, we automatically jump to the closest error and invoke quick fix there. A second Ctrl+1 takes you back to the original position and offers quick assists applicable to that position. But maybe we're approaching this at the wrong level and should generalize this in the platform as a "Rerun last command" command, which just reruns the last command. This would also work in other scenarios where you want to "do the last thing again" (e.g. run a refactoring that does not have a shortcut, etc.). These could also be shown in the Ctrl+3 dialog in a new category "Previous Commands". A "Rerun last command" command could e.g. be implemented via ICommandService#addExecutionListener(..). For quick fixes, this would not work out of the box because because the listener would just see the quick fix command itself, but I think it shouldn't be too hard to add the right events when executing quick fixes that already are commands.
