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I was just working with an Ant build file in MyEclipse 7-M2 on Windows XP SP3 with JDK 1.6.0_07, and noticed that undo isn’t working properly. If I type new characters, I can undo that, but any deletions, cut-paste, etc, are not being added to the undo buffer.
In more detail:
1. If I type character, the undo option becomes enabled and works.
2. As soon as I do a deletion, the previously available undo goes away, and all future typing fails to hit the undo buffers. It seems like the only way to restore the first undo shot is to restart the entire IDE.My IDE is installed from Pulse, with the latest updates and only plugins available through Pulse. The ones I have are AnyEdit Tools, SWT Win32 Extensions, and Jira Dashboard.
Has anybody else seen/reported this? Is there a fix/hack/workaround? For now I’ll have to change my build.xml files to open with the default text editor, hoping that’ll work, since this is a serious pain.
Actually, even with the Text Editor the behavior is very strange.
I can’t really say that I can even fully determine the pattern, but the undo history definitely becomes disjointed on any operation that affects a block of selected text. e.g. deleting a line, select some chars and then type to replace, etc. Simple typing usually works, it seems like, but when you create the disjointed undo history, then when you do get it enabled again, it seems like it’s not necessarily jumping back just one step in the history.
Anyway, I’ll research more, but I’m getting close to having to roll back, since I work in build files a lot.
Other text files behave properly, and renaming the build.xml to build.txt made it behave normally in the text editor. It definitely seems like it’s something that happens with the special handing for Ant build files.
mattp,
I was able to reproduce the issue that you have reported. I’ll file this for the dev team. Thank you for reporting this issue.mattp,
I was able to reproduce the issue that you have reported. I’ll file this for the dev team. Thank you for reporting this issue.Ok, cool. Do you guys expose your issue tracker so that I can follow the state of the bug in development and fixing? Is there any timeline for an M3 or the next release of ME7?
@support-nipun wrote:
Im afraid we dont expose the issue tracker but I’ll try to push this for the next release.
Ok. That’d be great, since ME 7 is basically dead for Ant usage. It’s forcing me to use Netbeans for the time being to maintain the build scripts (gasp). If it’s any consolation, I’m not liking it very much… 😉
