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Bug 20861

Summary:	enhanced copy and paste whilst in explorer [ccp] [code manipulation]
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Trevor Vaughan <trevor_vaughan>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Trevor Vaughan

2002-06-23 07:58:10 EDT

This request is along the lines of the functionality exhibited in Excel.

In Excel one can copy a cell and then do a "paste special" so as to only paste 
certain attributes of the copied cell such as the value or the formatting or 
the formula.

Whilst in eclipse's Package Explorer view, I frequently want to copy just the 
names or signatures of several selected methods rather then the definition of 
the methods itself. I imagine the functionality being so...

- user makes multiple selections of methods in the Package Explorer view
- mouse right click when in the editor
- the current functionality is the display of "paste" which will 
  paste the selected method definitions into the editor
- the new functionality is an additional "paste special" in which clicking 
  this results in a pop-up window in which the user can select "name" or 
  "signature" or signiture with return type to respectively paste just the 
  names or the signature or signature with return type of the selected methods
  into the editor.

Regards

Trevor Vaughan

Comment 1 Erich Gamma

2002-06-23 16:56:25 EDT

can you give a specific use case when you want to use paste special.
The use case that comes to mind is overridding a method but for this purpose 
there is already support.

Comment 2 Trevor Vaughan

2002-06-24 03:39:41 EDT

The specific example I am thinking of is where the user is working with beans. 
There is often the case that the user wants to refer to several of the get or 
set methods of a bean in another class. It is very convenient to select the 
bean class in the Explorer view and to then select the required methods of the 
bean for pasting the method names into the target class. The user makes several 
selects then a single paste.

To achieve this using auto-completion is laborious when more than a couple of 
methods names are required.

Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer

2002-07-30 06:18:20 EDT

For now no action planned for 2.1. PR is tagged as help wanted. Implementing 
this is a good thrid party opportunity.

Comment 4 Dirk Baeumer

2003-04-28 06:02:34 EDT

Chaning state from assigned later to resolved later. Assigned later got 
introduced by the last bug conversion and is not a supported Eclipse bug state.

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2009-08-30 02:36:25 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
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