Bug 483562 - Grouping windows and a save a group of editors for later restore
Summary: Grouping windows and a save a group of editors for later restore
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5.1   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2015-12-03 07:56 EST by Alessio Pollero CLA
Modified: 2015-12-03 07:56 EST (History)
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Description Alessio Pollero CLA 2015-12-03 07:56:51 EST 
Often I have a set of editors opened on several files that I'm working on and I would want to group this set of opened editors in a named group to be able to restore that group of opened editors easily, in the case I would want to close all these editors an open another set of them.

I think that the better option would be having the chance to select several editors(or an editor at time), and then being able to assign them to a group of editors, then it would be nice to have an "Editors Groups" Eclipse View that will list all saved group editors and will allow the user to restore a chosen group. 

An useful addition would be to assign a colour to an editor or a group of editors to let them be easily identifiable.


Another great addition would be having the chances to link a specific group to a specific working set.


I know it is possible saving the state of the editors working with multiple workspace, but it is something I'm not interested to do, because it will become an hassle to switch continuously between workspaces.