Re: [mylar-dev] reopening editors on task activation and editormanagemen

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Mik Kersten wrote:

> Regarding an option to suppress the automatic opening of files with external
> editors, this has been reported and scheduled for 0.4.7:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=118151

  Thanks.

> The idea behind the editor management is that you never have to manually
> manage the list of open editors, and that the open editors correspond to
> what's interesting.  

  That is what I've expected, but it doesn't behave like it.

> I find that this works well for my work practice (go
> through several tasks each day), but it sounds like we need to make it more
> configurable.  How do you end up with 20 open editors?  If you deactivate a
> task, and set the number of editors on the Mylar prefs page to automatically
> open to 1 (i.e. just the last one), then does this address the issue?  We
> could make a bunch of separate options (e.g. automatically map close to make
> less interesting, automatically close editors on deactivation) but it would
> be good to get a better understanding of the common usages so that the
> options don't bloat.

  This is not about editors opened on task activation (the seem opened 
quite randomly and I'd like to have separate discussion about that). 
This is about editors that stays opened while working on some task. If I 
understand it correctly Mylar disable Eclipse's option to automatically 
close editors when editor management is enabled. So, it doesn't seem 
that editors are being closed at all.
  BTW, I am heavily using Ctrl-Tab shortcut aliased to Ctrl-F6 to jump 
between editors.
  What I've expected is that opened editors would be automatically 
closed keeping list of opened editors reasonably short, but not removing 
such closed editors from the interest.

  regards,
  Eugene


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
> > Sent: January 6, 2006 9:12 PM
> > To: Mylar developer discussions
> > Subject: [mylar-dev] reopening editors on task activation and
> > editormanagement
> >
> > Mik,
> >
> >   I am having a hard time to understand how editor management is
> > actually supposed to work?
> >
> >   Not sure about the latest dev build but last release is annoyingly
> > reopens external editors for resources that are marked interesting. It
> > also seems that my workspace now has over 20 opened editors and clogin
> > any of them will move that resource out of interest. This is not
> > something one would expect.
> >
> >   Can you please clarify? Thanks in advance.
> >
> >   Eugene