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In a edit/compile/run cycle every time I minimize the lower view group (which contains the Console view) to see more of the code. I think this is a common cycle for all developers and it's tedious thing. First ESC keypress should be performed for a completion window popped up or anything that ESC is supposed to work on. Second ESC press is meaningless to most editors and should minimize views mentioned. This is actually a feature of Visual Studio 6.0 IDE (when you press ESC it hides the output window which is at the same place as Console view) I checked the Preferences->Workbench->Keys for Esc key but no association found. A preference for this might also be useful.
This is tricky, because "Esc" is a prefix for several key bindings on Linux at the moment. On Windows and MacOS X, we could add this....
I haven't thought about that. It's better to assign a configurable key then. ESC seems to be a good default for Windows and MacOS X, and for Linux it may be another key that is unassigned.
The lower views have no special status. If it is possible to minimize them with a keybinding, it should be possible to do the same with any other stack. OPTION 1: Perhaps something could be added to the system menu to attach a "toggle minimize" key to any stack, and each perspective could attach a default "toggle minimize" binding to one of its stacks. The java perspective could use this to give a keybinding for toggling the lower stack. OPTION 2: Perhaps we could add a "hide views" keybinding that maximizes the entire editor area. This would be easier to code, and would make the people who want to maximize a split editor area happy.
It's not hard to hide all views, you can press Alt+- and X (on Windows) But, in order to minimize the lower view stack in Java perspective (or another stack in another perspective) every time you have to position the mouse cursor on an exact region which is time consuming and boring. In my opinion "OPTION 1" is a more plausible solution. Another point; majority of the developers use large monitors. It is quite enough to see even for lines containing 100+ characters with view stacks on both (left and right) sides.
Alt+-, x maximizes the current editor stack. If there are multiple editor stacks open, they will be hidden in addition to the views.
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better solution (like in Netbeans for example): the lower view group (with Console, etc) should get _minimized_ automatically when I activate the (Java) editor window, by clicking on it with the mouse, to continue editing.
[REPLACES PREVIOUS COMMENT] > In a edit/compile/run cycle every time I minimize the lower view group (which > contains the Console view) to see more of the code. I think this is a common > cycle for all developers and it's tedious thing. better solution (like in Netbeans for example): the lower view group (with Console, etc) should get _minimized_ automatically when I activate the (Java) editor window, by clicking on it with the mouse, to continue editing. one of the main annoyances of the Eclipse Gui for me, too, since a long time.
There are currently no plans to work on this feature. PW
Changes requested on bug 193523
> the lower view group (with Console, etc) should get _minimized_ > automatically when I activate the (Java) editor window, How would this differ from fast views?
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