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I don't know if this is the right component to address the request to. Sorry in advance. I'd really find it useful to be able to save the status of the open editors and restore it at a later time. That's because I find myself working on the same file set for a while, then on another set and so on. More usually I open a given file set on a window and then another file set on another eclipse window (I often work with 4 or 5 eclipse windows at the same time). This independently of the specific working set currently selected. It's really a time waste always to open them manually. I'd find it nice to have, therefore, the possibility to save status information at a finer granularity than that offered by working sets. In other words, the ability of saving "file sets" (even comprising files outside the workspace) instead of (or together with) working sets. I'd find ideal a view similar to the navigator that could allow management of file-sets (save/edit/restore). I think this will substantially improve the usefulness of having more than one eclipse window active at the same time. Thanks a lot.
What do you mean by status? Do you just mean whether the file is open or closed? Or do you mean something more?
Well, essentially I mean just whether the file is open or closed. I see it as a quick way to open the same set of files with a simple operation, without choosing them one by one in the navigator or the package explorer (As I said, I always find myself in doing that over and over again any time I start up eclipse: open an eclipse window, open a set of files, open another window, another set of files and so on, and eclipse only remembers the open editors of the last of its window that is closed). It's a feature found in some programmers editors, sometimes called "sessions". For example, two java source files, a couple of xml files and an xslt stylesheet, which are closely related and I usually need to edit at the same time in the same eclipse window. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've been using eclipse since v2.1 and I don't know any other way around this (beside using navigator or package explorer). Perhaps this basic idea could be extended to support more actions to be performed on these file-sets (for example, closing every file of a file set which is open, or exporting them all to an external location). But just the opening feature, together with some basic support for editing a file set (adding/removing a file), would be great, IMO. Thanks a lot.
I believe this is really just a request to make working sets easier to use, and to build up the numbers of tools that can manipulate working sets.
Probably that's right. I have just a doubt: working sets limit the visibility of items in the workspace. That's why I rarely use them to select single files, but just restrict the set of project appearing in navigator/package explorer. What I had in mind is a way to open a set of files but *still* having all others visible in the nav/pack.expl. views. I have no idea if this fits well to the working set philosophy and the underlying implementation. If this is possible extending the working sets capabilities and UI, that would be ok for me. Thanks againg for the prompt feedback.
The Mylyn projects offers some such functionality but there's probably room to explore in the platform.
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