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Bug 102748

Summary: Keyboard shortcuts completely broken when switching tabs
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Yu-Hong Wang <yhwang>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Yu-Hong Wang CLA 2005-07-05 13:06:03 EDT 
Using Eclipse 3.1 (final) on Mac OS X 10.4.1. 

Steps to reproduce.

1. Open more than one Java editor tab.
2. Perform some editing in one tab and switch to the other.
3. Now try to use some keyboard editing shortcuts. For example, Undo (Cmd+Z), Cut (Cmd+X), etc.

Expecteed.
Editing shortcuts work.

Actual.
Editing shortcuts do not work. WORSE, THE KEY EVENTS ARE SENT TO THE INACTIVE TAB! I.e. pressing 
Cmd+X for cut DELETES TEXT IN BACKGROUND TAB. 

Notes.
This is an intermittent bug, and happens roughly 90-95% of the time.

This makes Eclipse virtually unusable. Not only does it hamper creation of new code, but it ALSO 
DESTROYS EXISTING CODE. It's not obvious at all what has happened, and if the user saves the file in 
the background tab, they have lost work!
Comment 1 Douglas Pollock CLA 2005-07-05 13:40:39 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95276 ***