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How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540343]

Tue, 15 June 2010 18:09

Richard Hassinger

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Sometime in the past year a "feature" snuck into eclipse (perhaps 3.6M*) which tends to get in my way. When you hold down ctrl/cmd over a method, a two-line menu appears with the options "open declaration" and "open implementation". The problem is this menu often pops up as I'm about to reach the piece of code I wanted to jump to and winds up covering it up. So I have to release, move back over it with my mouse and try again. I never need the menu, I just want to jump to that method with a ctrl/cmd-click. Very annoying. Usually these things can be disabled somewhere but I can't figure out where. Is this menu hard-coded active in the editor?
Thanks for any help.

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540347 is a reply to message #540343]

Tue, 15 June 2010 18:42

Deepak Azad

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On 6/15/2010 11:39 PM, Richard Hassinger wrote:
> Sometime in the past year a "feature" snuck into eclipse (perhaps 3.6M*)
> which tends to get in my way. When you hold down ctrl/cmd over a method,
> a two-line menu appears with the options "open declaration" and "open
> implementation". The problem is this menu often pops up as I'm about to
> reach the piece of code I wanted to jump to and winds up covering it up.
> So I have to release, move back over it with my mouse and try again. I
> never need the menu, I just want to jump to that method with a
> ctrl/cmd-click. Very annoying. Usually these things can be disabled
> somewhere but I can't figure out where. Is this menu hard-coded active
> in the editor?
> Thanks for any help.
To open a method declaration - select method > Press F3. Is this what
you want to do?

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540354 is a reply to message #540347]

Tue, 15 June 2010 19:03

Richard Hassinger

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Deepak Azad wrote on Tue, 15 June 2010 14:42

On 6/15/2010 11:39 PM, Richard Hassinger wrote:
To open a method declaration - select method > Press F3. Is this what
you want to do?

No, I want the menu to stop showing up.

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540406 is a reply to message #540343]

Wed, 16 June 2010 04:04

Deepak Azad

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Registered: July 2009

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On 6/15/2010 11:39 PM, Richard Hassinger wrote:
> Sometime in the past year a "feature" snuck into eclipse (perhaps 3.6M*)
> which tends to get in my way. When you hold down ctrl/cmd over a method,
> a two-line menu appears with the options "open declaration" and "open
> implementation". The problem is this menu often pops up as I'm about to
> reach the piece of code I wanted to jump to and winds up covering it up.
I did not understand why you need to press the ctrl key while moving the
mouse to go to some code.

> So I have to release, move back over it with my mouse and try again. I
> never need the menu, I just want to jump to that method with a
> ctrl/cmd-click.
This sounds like you want to open the method declaration..F3 is the key
for that.

Very annoying. Usually these things can be disabled
> somewhere but I can't figure out where. Is this menu hard-coded active
> in the editor?
> Thanks for any help.
I do not think there is a preference to disable that menu.

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540457 is a reply to message #540343]

Wed, 16 June 2010 08:32

Dani Megert

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Richard Hassinger wrote:
> Sometime in the past year a "feature" snuck into eclipse (perhaps
> 3.6M*) which tends to get in my way. When you hold down ctrl/cmd over
> a method, a two-line menu appears with the options "open declaration"
> and "open implementation". The problem is this menu often pops up as
> I'm about to reach the piece of code I wanted to jump to
Out of the box hyperlinking (and hence the pop-up) only happens when the
'Ctrl' modifier is pressed, so my question: why do you press the
modifier when you want to jump to code?

Go to the General > Editors > Text Editors > Hyperlinking preference
page and disable the 'Open Implementation' link kind (or assign a
different modifier to it).

HTH
Dani
> and winds up covering it up. So I have to release, move back over it
> with my mouse and try again. I never need the menu, I just want to
> jump to that method with a ctrl/cmd-click. Very annoying. Usually
> these things can be disabled somewhere but I can't figure out where.
> Is this menu hard-coded active in the editor?
> Thanks for any help.

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540513 is a reply to message #540457]

Wed, 16 June 2010 12:42

Richard Hassinger

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Dani Megert wrote on Wed, 16 June 2010 04:32

I'm not sure why your question is a question at all. I want to jump to the code behind a method, so I hold down ctrl and click on that method. I don't want the hyperlinking feature gone, just the useless menu that covers up code and gets in the way. The hyperlinking feature has been around for several major versions so I'm very accustomed to using it. It's the recently added, javascript-like menu that I want to go away.

Now that I've tinkered with it, I found that I can get rid of the menu by removing the "open implementation" link from the preference pane you referred to. Since there is only one action it doesn't bother to display the menu.

[Updated on: Wed, 16 June 2010 12:49]

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #540600 is a reply to message #540513]

Wed, 16 June 2010 15:51

Dani Megert

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Richard Hassinger wrote:
> Dani Megert wrote on Wed, 16 June 2010 04:32
>> Richard Hassinger wrote:
>> > Sometime in the past year a "feature" snuck into eclipse (perhaps >
>> 3.6M*) which tends to get in my way. When you hold down ctrl/cmd over
>> > a method, a two-line menu appears with the options "open
>> declaration" > and "open implementation". The problem is this menu
>> often pops up as > I'm about to reach the piece of code I wanted to
>> jump to Out of the box hyperlinking (and hence the pop-up) only
>> happens when the 'Ctrl' modifier is pressed, so my question: why do
>> you press the modifier when you want to jump to code?
>>
>> Go to the General > Editors > Text Editors > Hyperlinking preference
>> page and disable the 'Open Implementation' link kind (or assign a
>> different modifier to it).
>>
>> HTH
>> Dani
>> > and winds up covering it up. So I have to release, move back over
>> it > with my mouse and try again. I never need the menu, I just want
>> to > jump to that method with a ctrl/cmd-click. Very annoying.
>> Usually > these things can be disabled somewhere but I can't figure
>> out where. > Is this menu hard-coded active in the editor?
>> > Thanks for any help.
>
>
> I'm not sure why your question is a question at all. I want to jump to
> the code behind a method, so I hold down ctrl and click on that
> method. I don't want the hyperlinking feature gone, just the useless
> menu that covers up code and gets in the way.
Mmh, but why does it matter that it hides the code if you want to jump
to the declaration of that method anyway? Also, didn't get my help
regarding the preference page help?

Dani
> The hyperlinking feature has been around for several major versions so
> I'm very accustomed to using it. It's the recently added,
> javascript-like menu that I want to go away.

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Re: How to disable the "open declaration/implementation" popup menu [message #541454 is a reply to message #540406]

Mon, 21 June 2010 09:07

Raksha Vasisht

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Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Deepak Azad wrote:
> On 6/15/2010 11:39 PM, Richard Hassinger wrote:
>> Sometime in the past year a "feature" snuck into eclipse (perhaps 3.6M*)
>> which tends to get in my way. When you hold down ctrl/cmd over a method,
>> a two-line menu appears with the options "open declaration" and "open
>> implementation". The problem is this menu often pops up as I'm about to
>> reach the piece of code I wanted to jump to and winds up covering it up.
> I did not understand why you need to press the ctrl key while moving the
> mouse to go to some code.
>
>> So I have to release, move back over it with my mouse and try again. I
>> never need the menu, I just want to jump to that method with a
>> ctrl/cmd-click.
> This sounds like you want to open the method declaration..F3 is the key
> for that.
>
> Very annoying. Usually these things can be disabled
>> somewhere but I can't figure out where. Is this menu hard-coded active
>> in the editor?
>> Thanks for any help.
> I do not think there is a preference to disable that menu.

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