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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Improved editor management

Did you look at Jared's editor view mentioned in bug 37589? 
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37589)
Sounds like you did something similar.

Knut




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I was just reading through what will be available in the next Milestone 
build and noticed that you were going to re-implement the editor drop down 
list again for easier editor navigation. I used this feature frequently 
when it was available in the 2.0 release but found that it still had 
limitations of it's own when there were many open editors. 
 
 This being my first post here I know this is rather presumptuous of me 
but would like to suggest that you implement the improved editor 
navigation as a view instead of a drop down. I did this for myself already 
by ripping  a bunch of code out of the View Open Editors window and cannot 
begin to tell you how indispensable it is to myself and my fellow 
colleagues on a daily basis. 
 
There are also many additional pros to implementing the navigation as a 
view then as a drop down.  Sorting, multiple editor select for saving and 
closing editors. The ability to show open editors from all open windows. 
Extension points for adding additional actions to selected editors in the 
list such as updating/committing to cvs.  I really honestly believe that 
if you were to implement the navigation in the way that I suggest you will 
have a much more powerful extension to the platform then just simply 
switching between open editors that a drop down would give you.
 
Rob Dingwell
MITRE Corp.
 
 




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