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Copying from outline view [message #108558]

Fri, 08 August 2003 03:37

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: veith.pixel.de

hi,

AFAIK, in eclipse release 2.x you can copy an entry (for instance an
inner class) in the outline view and paste it into an editor. the entire
source of the class was copied.
in release 3.x only the string selected in the outline view gets copied.
Can I get the r. 2.1 behavior into r. 3.x ?

Gernot

Re: Copying from outline view [message #109690 is a reply to message #108558]

Mon, 11 August 2003 12:59

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: adam_kiezun.ch.ibm.remove.com

Not at this point.

This was introduced as a tradeoff for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37307
Only 1 thing can be copied to the text clipboard - either it's the name of the method or it is its content.
This behaviour was changed to fix the bug above and make it consistent for all elements.
You could enter a report and argue that for methods/imports/types/fields/package declarations
it's the source that should be put in the clipboard and for projects/java projects/source folders/packages/compilation
units/files/folders/jar files/source folders/class folders it should be the element's name. Or sth along these lines.

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