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Right mouse click functionality [message #990773]

Fri, 14 December 2012 08:47

Kitesurfer ()

Messages: 87
Registered: December 2009

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Hi,

Column mode select in Eclipse means, first Alt+Shift+A, then you can select, and you have to finish it via again Alt+Shift+A.

A lot of pc-based commercial editors have (fast) column mode selecting via the mouse (rightclick and drag). So without explicitly having to set the editor to columnmode you can just do a rightmouse click at the column you want to start the selection ... drag the mouse (still with the rightmouse down) ... and the column-select is done.

We miss this in Eclipse. Could this be added to the next version of Eclipse ? Would be great !

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Re: Right mouse click functionality [message #990905 is a reply to message #990773]

Fri, 14 December 2012 19:05

Wayne Beaton

Messages: 554
Registered: December 2017

Senior Member

Hi Kitesurfer.

The best way to get the attention of the Eclipse developers is to engage
them directly via a bug/issue report.

I recommend that you open a new bug against Platform/Text:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Platform

Since--based on the other message you posted in this forum--you seem to
have some skill with Eclipse, any request you make will carry a lot
more weight if it's accompanied by a patch and a general willingness to
contribute to the open source project.

HTH,

Wayne

On 12/14/2012 03:47 AM, Kitesurfer () wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Column mode select in Eclipse means, first Alt+Shift+A, then you can
> select, and you have to finish it via again Alt+Shift+A.
>
> A lot of pc-based commercial editors have (fast) column mode selecting
> via the mouse (rightclick and drag). So without explicitly having to set
> the editor to columnmode you can just do a rightmouse click at the
> column you want to start the selection ... drag the mouse (still with
> the rightmouse down) ... and the column-select is done.
> We miss this in Eclipse. Could this be added to the next version of
> Eclipse ? Would be great !
>
>

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