On Sunday, 14. September 2003, at 01:25AM, Christian Edward Gruber
wrote:
> My dream is that you could have the expander (+) sign (or whatever your
> ui has for tree expansion) on such folders, but that clicking on them
> normally causes them to behave as it they were files.
The Eclipse team is working on a way to open the refactoring stuff for
other plugins. It's a matter of time until a rename of a .java file
does the things we want.
>
> As to how MacOS handles them, I thought if you re-named an app, it's
> contained application executable also changed its name. But I might be
> fantasizing about my old NeXT days. You know, the long lost golden age
> is always better than today. ;)
>
> Cg.
>
> P.S. And no I'm not volunteering. I am running 15 hour days solid
> right now. -cg.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harald Niesche [mailto:haral..heco.de]
>> I am not trying to start a flame war, but somehow I always had the
>> feeling that Mac OS doesn't handle those folders-as-files
>> (bundle-wrapper is the official name?) really well, either
>> (rename one
>> of them -- does Finder rename the parts inside?). You need to
>> be able to
>> look inside to make them work (e.g. with CVS and .eomodel~
>> folders), but
>> it's really quite hard to do that on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Besides, there are some folders that are quite special to
>> Eclipse, I am
>> - of course - talking about Java packages and CVS Folders. I think it
>> should be possible to make Eclipse recognize bundle wrappers as such
>> (although I'd rather like if I could look inside without having to
>> Alt-doubleclick things).
>>
>> Harald
>>
>>
>>
>
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