Description adrian 2001-12-03 15:05:19 EST

1.- Here's the original Eclipse corner append:

Subject: Need mechanism to change global-action accelerator
Date: 17 May 2001 14:06:17 GMT
Newsgroups: eclipse.tools

I need a mechanism to easily change the accelerator of a global action in
the scope of the currently active viewer.

My text editor supports various key behaviors, such as emacs and vi.  For
example, in emacs, Ctrl+S is defined as "Search". However, the desktop
hardcodes Ctrl+S (and also takes over it, so the viewer doesn't receive a
KeyEvent for it) for the global action "Save".  While my editor is the
active window, I need to be able to remove the accelerator from the
desktop's "Save" (save in emacs is Ctrl+X,Ctrl+S), and receive the Ctrl+S
key in my KeyListener like any other key.  For some global actions, a new
accelerator may have to be set (rather than just removed as is the case
for this example) while my editor is the active keyboard-focus window.

[ This could be accomplished by updating the desktop accelerators for the
actions attached to it in IActionBars#setGlobalActionHandler(), as called
in BasicTextEditorActionContributor#setActiveEditor(). ]

2.- Bugzilla Bugs 1920, 1921 are related, but do not cover this requirement.

3.- In order to adequately support other editor personalities,
(a) the editor should have better control over its keys than now available - it 
should be the first to receive them, so it can 'consume' the keys it needs, and 
let the others be further handled by Eclipse;

(b) it should be able to modify the global Eclipse accelerators when it becomes 
active/non-active:
- query what's been defined by Eclipse
- change/remove the accelerators which conflict with its own when it gets focus, 
restore the original ones when it loses focus.