[Gerry]

I’d really like to see a “join lines” feature in all the text editors in MyEclipse. This just strips out all retuns (or linefeeds or whatever the platform uses as a line separator) in the selected text or the whole file if nothing was selected. I miss this feature from other editors I use. I use it for data and code. Most recently I wanted to select each in a series of 20 short conditional statement blocks that look like:

    if( x == y )
    {
         doSomething();
    }

…and change it to:

    if( x == y ) { doSomething(); }

I still want to use the formatter to convert code to the former, but sometimes I want to do the latter anyway. And there’s lots of other reasons to need to join lines, too.

Looking forward to the next MyEclipse release! Hope this makes it in.

A bit harder but possible is I’d like to see the ability to select text in specific columns in addition to rows, also called box select. You hold down CTRL while highlighting a text selection and the selection looks like a box. This way you can operate on just parts of mulitiple lines instead of every char in the lines between the start/end points of selected lines. Hope this makes sense. It’s very useful if you want to copy or delete something from the middle of lots of lines that happens to line up in a columnar fashion. The first time I came across it was in Brief on DOS about 10 years ago. A few current and inexpensive text/programmers editors like TextPad and EmEditor have this feature, and I’ve seen other IDEs do it as well. It’s a great timesaver feature and once you’ve used it a few times you really miss it.

Thanks!

[Riyad Kalla]

Unfortunately the next release is right around the corner so something like this won’t make it in at the last minute… I swear there was a text-editor-enhancer plugin I saw about 6 months back that had a bunch of these smaller little nicities in it, and some folks on the forums were using it with MyEclipse, I just don’t recall what it was called.

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