[ecf-dev] Sharing Editor Selections

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I've put some screen shots up here to describe using the existing 
example collab to share 'editor selections'. 

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Sharing_Editor_Selections

What is intended by this is that participants can open an editor (text 
editor, java editor, manifest editor), select a piece of text (e.g. a 
class or method), and send a sharing event out to other group members 
that first opens the text file in the given editor, and then scrolls to 
and selects the selected text.

This is meant to support a use case of simple distributed code 
reviews...where the code is not being modified by participants, but 
rather just viewed, and people are jointly navigating through the code 
and directing participant's attention to various files and various parts 
of files (lines, methods, code blocks, etc).

This is a simple example, and *not* intended to deal with use cases 
around real-time shared editing (i.e. cola)...but it does allow a 
simple-but-common use case.

Scott