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Bug 11211

Summary: Packages view should not synch to implicit selection
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Peter Burka <peter_burka>
Component: UIAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows NT   
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Description Peter Burka CLA 2002-03-12 16:59:14 EST 
(I think that this is a Platform problem.  If it's JDT please recategorize).

When you close an editor, the next editor in the tab group will come to the 
top.  When it does so, it causes the selection in the Packages view to change 
to match the input of the editor.

This behaviour is very annoying, as it causes the Packages view to lose my 
context.  The selection in the Packages view should change only if I explicitly 
select an editor, not just because I closed one.

Alternatively, perhaps the selection could only change if the selection 
currently points to the input of the closed editor.

(20020214 stable build)
Comment 1 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-05-01 18:06:48 EDT 
Tod, pls try this case in the latest 2.0 builds. From the description it looks 
like linking was turned on and disabling this preference would "fix" the 
problem.
Comment 2 Peter Burka CLA 2002-05-01 19:19:54 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13560 ***