Re: Editing in Eclipse

From: John Huss (johnthus..mail.com)
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 13:35:56 EDT

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    If you care about this issue, go and Vote for these bugs at eclipse.org:

    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5138
    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14654
    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23614

    It looks like it's close to being fixed, but not for 3.2.

    John

    On 5/22/06, Mike Schrag <mschra..dimension.com> wrote:
    > Interestingly, the text area where you edit on Eclipse is pure
    > Java ... Most of the surrounding controls are native, though.
    >
    > It is an SWT thing, though. I believe it's literally the case that
    > there is no triple-click event (it's a double followed by a single, I
    > think?). There are open bugs for it, but not a lot of movement to
    > fix it.
    >
    > I'm also still not used to the new mac keyboard navigation :)
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On May 22, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Marc Respass wrote:
    >
    > > Welcome to write once work like Windows everywhere ;). Lastest
    > > builds of Eclipse use Mac keyboard navigation which is good if
    > > you're new to Eclipse and a pain if your brain switches to Eclipse
    > > mode like mine has for the past 3 years.
    > >
    > > I think the answer is "the source is available" (ha ha - kidding).
    > > I don't know any way to do that. I use Azureus and Oxygen (both
    > > also SWT apps) and they don't do it right either. I think it's an
    > > SWT thing. SWT on Mac is based on Carbon so it's possible that the
    > > Carbon TextArea control doesn't give you much.
    > >
    > > Marc
    > >
    > > On May 22, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:
    > >
    > >> Does anyone have any hints or tips on how to get the Eclipse
    > >> editor to be more Mac like? There are 2 things that are driving
    > >> me insane:
    > >>
    > >> 1) Triple-click does not highlight an entire line
    > >> 2) Double click on a word, then drag, does not highlight on a
    > >> word by word basis
    > >>
    > >> I thought I could overlook these things, but it still drives me
    > >> nuts after a month using Eclipse.
    > >>
    > >> Thanks,
    > >> Ken
    > >>
    > >
    >
    >



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