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Let say we have a code block as below ArrayList list1; ArrayList list2; ArrayList list3; Now i would like to go into column selection mode and select the "ArrayList" column spanning the 3 lines and do a content assist and replace it with "Set". So the code will be as follows Set list1; Set list2; Set list3; This is supported in vscode. I would like to see the same in Eclipse IDE. I would think this is a important feature since many IDEs and Editors supports this.
Actually this some what works if i remove the selected text from column selection and then try to auto complete. Like follows ArrayList list1; ArrayList list2; ArrayList list3; After removing text in column selection mode | list1; | list2; | list3; They select "Set" from content assist will give me the following. Set list1; Set list2; Set list3; It would be nice if we can give the same for replacements as well in column mode.
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This should resolve the described use case: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=576377
(In reply to Dirk Steinkamp from comment #3) > This should resolve the described use case: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=576377 The text manipulation os not enough here, the tricky part becomes to compute the relevant completion items with multiple requests and to merge/filter them.
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #4) > (In reply to Dirk Steinkamp from comment #3) > > This should resolve the described use case: > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=576377 > > The text manipulation os not enough here, the tricky part becomes to compute > the relevant completion items with multiple requests and to merge/filter > them. I just tried it out: Actually the problem does not to seem to be to generate completion items in general (that somewhat works and seems to be based on the first caret), but the insertion of the selected proposal doesn't respect multi-selection (or block selection ...), but just inserts the code completion at the first caret position and ends multi-selection mode. A little more detail to the "somewhat" in the provided example: 1. if a multi-selection or block selection is active and I newly type the first letters of an identifier, I get an adequate content assist. 2. if the selection already contains some characters, and I invoke content assist, then I don't get proper suggestions. Actually I don't get a proper suggestion if I only have a single selection either --- might this be intended behavior, and I just don't understand the pattern of the proposals?!?
