| Can 3.1.2 JDT Editor "region of interest" behavior be turned off? [message #224247] |
Thu, 16 February 2006 11:44  |
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Originally posted by: wayne.arenz.gd-ais.com
I've been "gone" from Eclipse (by assignments, not by my choice) for over
a half year. Therefore, I'm getting surprised by changes/ behaviors
introduced while Eclipse's evolution during my absence.
Granted, perhaps "changes" are of my own doing as I have performed a fresh
install of 3.1.2 and piddled about in my Preferences. Maybe I turned on
things I didn't before when I used 3.0?
The behavior I'm finding most annoying at the momemnt is that the JDT
editor "routinely" selects a region of interest for me and eliminates all
surrounding context. E.g. if I click on an annotation in the Problems
view, I jump to the problem (as desired), but it is not the expected
"rapid scroll" into the code. Rather, the problem I've clicked is
presented only in the context of the containing method. I can no longer
scroll up and down through the entire class/ file to see the problem in
larger context. Maybe narrow focus promotes better OO thinking, but I'm
personally not very thrilled, especially when I want to go back to coding
some other portion of the class/file.
The only reliable way "out" that I've found is a CTRL-L 1 (goto line 1).
I have also been able to click on the class in the Package Explorer, but I
don't this this always works.
"Focus" also occurs when I double-click on the left bar, as in
accidentally bouncing my mouse button when setting a breakpoint.
Did I turn this feature on? Better: How can I turn it off???
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| Re: Can 3.1.2 JDT Editor "region of interest" behavior be turned off? [message #224263 is a reply to message #224247] |
Thu, 16 February 2006 12:11  |
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You turned it on...and you can turn it off :-)
In the editor toolbar there is an action called "Show Source of Selected
Element Only"
The icon is a text document with a smaller embedded text document.
Toggle this off
HTH
Darins
"R. Wayne Arenz" <wayne.arenz@gd-ais.com> wrote in message
news:c3de04f685b239ac6b0fe54e39cab6c5$1@www.eclipse.org...
> I've been "gone" from Eclipse (by assignments, not by my choice) for over
> a half year. Therefore, I'm getting surprised by changes/ behaviors
> introduced while Eclipse's evolution during my absence.
>
> Granted, perhaps "changes" are of my own doing as I have performed a fresh
> install of 3.1.2 and piddled about in my Preferences. Maybe I turned on
> things I didn't before when I used 3.0?
>
> The behavior I'm finding most annoying at the momemnt is that the JDT
> editor "routinely" selects a region of interest for me and eliminates all
> surrounding context. E.g. if I click on an annotation in the Problems
> view, I jump to the problem (as desired), but it is not the expected
> "rapid scroll" into the code. Rather, the problem I've clicked is
> presented only in the context of the containing method. I can no longer
> scroll up and down through the entire class/ file to see the problem in
> larger context. Maybe narrow focus promotes better OO thinking, but I'm
> personally not very thrilled, especially when I want to go back to coding
> some other portion of the class/file.
>
> The only reliable way "out" that I've found is a CTRL-L 1 (goto line 1).
> I have also been able to click on the class in the Package Explorer, but I
> don't this this always works.
>
> "Focus" also occurs when I double-click on the left bar, as in
> accidentally bouncing my mouse button when setting a breakpoint.
>
> Did I turn this feature on? Better: How can I turn it off???
>
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| Re: Can 3.1.2 JDT Editor "region of interest" behavior be turned off? [message #226835 is a reply to message #224247] |
Wed, 29 March 2006 17:15 |
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I have been arguing that it is a UI usability bug that the 'turn this off'
button is so badly placed. There have been *many* questions before about this
issue, which indicates that people have problems with it.
If you agree (or disagree) you can add your opinion here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20155
/adam
R. Wayne Arenz wrote:
> I've been "gone" from Eclipse (by assignments, not by my choice) for
> over a half year. Therefore, I'm getting surprised by changes/
> behaviors introduced while Eclipse's evolution during my absence.
>
> Granted, perhaps "changes" are of my own doing as I have performed a
> fresh install of 3.1.2 and piddled about in my Preferences. Maybe I
> turned on things I didn't before when I used 3.0?
>
> The behavior I'm finding most annoying at the momemnt is that the JDT
> editor "routinely" selects a region of interest for me and eliminates
> all surrounding context. E.g. if I click on an annotation in the
> Problems view, I jump to the problem (as desired), but it is not the
> expected "rapid scroll" into the code. Rather, the problem I've clicked
> is presented only in the context of the containing method. I can no
> longer scroll up and down through the entire class/ file to see the
> problem in larger context. Maybe narrow focus promotes better OO
> thinking, but I'm personally not very thrilled, especially when I want
> to go back to coding some other portion of the class/file.
>
> The only reliable way "out" that I've found is a CTRL-L 1 (goto line
> 1). I have also been able to click on the class in the Package
> Explorer, but I don't this this always works.
>
> "Focus" also occurs when I double-click on the left bar, as in
> accidentally bouncing my mouse button when setting a breakpoint.
>
> Did I turn this feature on? Better: How can I turn it off???
>
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