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Build Identifier: 20110916-0149 The type filters feature would be far more usable if it were possible to select packages/types to filter directly from the pop-up dialogs when performing autocomplete (control-space), organize imports, quick fix, etc. Currently I have to perform so many steps to ignore a package that I only do it for the most frequent naming collisions. Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > Build Identifier: 20110916-0149 > > The type filters feature would be far more usable if it were possible to select > packages/types to filter directly from the pop-up dialogs when performing > autocomplete (control-space), organize imports, quick fix, etc. Currently I > have to perform so many steps to ignore a package that I only do it for the > most frequent naming collisions. > > > Reproducible: Always It just involves going to the preference page and setting the package to be filtered there. A shortcut you propose is not directly relevant to every java editor pop-up and for most users providing such commands will just add noise to the popup. Unless the popular vote is in favour I'd not touch this at the moment. Moving to JDT/UI for advice.
Unwanted packages can be filtered via Java > Appearance > Type Filters
Of course this can be done via the preferences Dani, which is why I wrote in the description, "I have to perform so many steps to ignore a package that I only do it for the most frequent naming collisions." Please think outside the box for a minute. Consider Firefox's "awesome bar." If I want to eliminate a page from my browsing history, in the past I would have had to select history, then find the page, then delete it. Now I can start typing in the awesome bar, hit the delete key when the page title shows up, and it is done. When I use autocomplete and see that there are pacakges being proposed that I know I'll never use, if I were so inclined as to spend the time with the current klutzy implementation of filtering, I'd have to: 0. Press control-space and see lots of proposals I won't use. 1. Grab a pencil and write down all of the full package names that are relevant because I can't copy and paste them. 2. Next I'd have to click Window, 3. Click preferences, 4. Click expand Java 5. Click expand appearance 6. Click type filters 7. Click add/add packages 8. Type in about 30-40 characters on average per namespace I'd like to filter 9. Repeat step 8 three to five times on average for each package I don't use. 10. Remember that next time I want to filter packages that it's such a !@#$ hassle that it's not worth ever doing again. Or, if you'd accept this proposal..... 0. Click control-space and see lots of proposals I won't use. 1. Press cursor down to highlight a package I won't use. 2. Press delete to add it to filters. 3. Repeat steps 1-2 until I'm satisified.
Seems a reasonable request given that we do something similar for 'Step filters' - you can filter types and packages right from Debug view.
> 2. Press delete to add it to filters. We would at least have to ask whether to delete the member, type or package.
I would far prefer it if you didn't; Firefox doesn't. It's not an unrecoverable operation--you can go to the filters preferences to undo in the event you made a mistake. If you really felt you need to add a confirmation, you could at least make it configurable and add a "don't ask me again" checkbox.
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