Description Marco Qualizza 2004-01-09 15:31:27 EST

While using the Type view (from the browsing perspective) to open a type,
Eclipse demonstrates a very peculiar foible: It selects (in the editor) the name
of the class you are opening.

Although this particular mannerism seems mostly harmless, it gets really
annoying really quickly when, for example, you're using the View to select files
you already have open (don't want to go tab-hunting) because any positioning
you've done in the file and any highighting is lost.  And the mannerism can
drive someone to the edge of lunacy when, for example, one is trying to do a
search-and-replace for the exact same text in a number of types.  Because not
only does it highlight the name, but when you click on the editor to activate it
and do your S&R, the contents of the "Find" field gets changed to the name of
the type.  Quite aggravating, that.

I humbly request that this "feature" be... disabled... especially since there is
no real discernible value in selecting the name of the type when the file is
being opened.

Instead, I suggest that, when a user clicks on a type, either open the file to
the top of that type (if the file isn't open), just switch to it (if the file is
open in another editor) or just switch to the type (if the file is open in the
current editor -- this is for inner types).

Thanks :-)