[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Feature Request: Implement Ctrl-S across the bo

["Nick Edgar" <nick_edgar@xxxxxxx>]

The PDE plugin editor should hook the global action for save, which does
have the Ctrl-S accelerator.

Nick

"Jim Sculley" <niceguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> While writing my first plugin this weekend I was completely baffled when
> my seemingly valid 'plugin.xml' file would not be accepted by the
> multi-page editor for plugins.  Every time I tried to switch to any tab
> other than 'Source', Eclipse claimed that there were problems with the
> source.  I went so far as to delete everything but the <plugin> tag
> itself, but the problem remained.  I then copied and pasted the
> 'plugin.xml' files from both the Help dcoumentation and the "Writing
> Your First Plugin" article on the Eclipse web site.  Nither of those
> worked either.
>
> As it turns out, the problem was that CTRL-S does nothing in the XML
> editor.  It doesn't save the file.  So every change I made wasn't
> affecting anything because the file was never actually saved.  In
> retrospect, I should have realized thaty no dialog appeared saying
> 'Operation in progress', but for such a small file, it didn't occur to me.
>
> As a long time VAJ user, the CTRL-S (and CTRL-SHIFT-S) keystroke is
> permanently wired in my brain.  This functionality should be present in
> every editor window for the sake of consistency.
>
> Jim S.
>