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Good afternoon!
I’ve waited since 5.5.1 GA version that it will be implemented because it’s very useful, but it’s still not in 6.5 GA. So I have to post the request here.
What do I mean? It should be the file(ANY file, not just java or xml) editor feature. We all know that we can select few lines of code and delete/copy/paste it. But often it could be very useful if we can select COLUMNS instead of rows(lines). For example, assume this simple code:
this.a1 = b1; this.a2 = b2; this.a3 = b3; this.a4 = b4; etc...And we need to add “this.” to all b-variables. Logically it would be nice to copy it from a-variables. But practically – without rectangular selection it’s impossible.
Just for example – such ability has Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, and I should admit that they did it very simple and intuitive to use. It’s just like ordinary selection, just you should keep pressed the “Alt” button. After text is selected – every button like “Del”, “Ctrl+Ins”, etc. works like if it was the ordinary selection.
NetBeans IDE has it too, BUT as a plugin(rectangular selection), and I should mention that the plugin is VERY hard to use. MS approach is a lot easier and much more useful.If this editor feature be in MyEclipse – it would be VERY useful.
Thanks in advance!
I know it’s a great idea but this is something you should file for the core Eclipse team. Im not sure if they are already considering this as an enhancement.
@support-nipun wrote:
I know it’s a great idea but this is something you should file for the core Eclipse team. Im not sure if they are already considering this as an enhancement.
Thanks for your advice. I’ve found two issues on eclipse bug tracker. One is just like mine(~19771), but it couldn’t be solved because of a bug reported in year 2002(~8521). Too sad, but seems that we will never have this feature 🙁
Here https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8521 people are talking about READY Eclipse patch, which allows to make column selections. There is also a link to site http://tkilla.ch/column_mode with descriptions of how to install this patch.
I’ve tried to do it in my MyEclipse 6.5.1 GA and got these errors:
Requested operation cannot be performed because it would invalidate the current configuration. See details for more information.
Column Mode JDT Feature Patch (1.0.0.200807282300) requires feature “org.eclipse.jdt (3.4.0.v20080603-2000-7o7tEAXEFpPqqoXxgaBhhhq)”.
Column Mode Platform Feature Patch (1.0.0.200807282300) requires feature “org.eclipse.platform (3.4.0.v20080610-9I96EhtEm-T_5LxIsybz-3MdGZmOA3uwv7Ka_M)”.
Column Mode RCP Feature Patch (1.0.0.200807282300) requires feature “org.eclipse.rcp (3.4.0.v20080324a-989JERhEk-jWnd5IY8K5tjxB)”.Can anybody tell me what does it mean? And can my links help to solve the subject of this thread(i.e. column selection in MyEclipse IDE)?
Thank you very much in advance!
J-Pro,
The patch is to be used with Eclipse 3.4. MyEclipse 6.5. runs on Eclipse 3.3. Thats the reason you got the error. You should upgrade to Eclipse 3.4 and MyEclipse 7.0M2 to apply this patch.Oops!
I decided to try this and now I can’t get MyEclipse (V7.0M2) to start at all !
I get a dialog box saying “An error has occurred see log file”.
The log is quite large – I can post or email if you like.
However, I’m just going to reinstall MyEclipse and adandon this for now.Has anyone seen this working sucessfully with ME?
Aidan.
Related to this thread, I noticed that this feature has been added to Eclipse 3.5 M3: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5M3-200810301917/eclipse-news-M3.html . See, “Block selection in StyledText”. So, probably in just a little over 1 year you should be able to have this feature 😉
