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Bug 235736

Summary:	[expand selection] Select Enclosing Element, within a comment, selects too much
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Scott Evans <gse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, markus.kell.r
Version:	3.3.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Scott Evans

2008-06-04 20:38:54 EDT

Build ID: M20080221-1800

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Position the carat on a word within a comment, within a method. (block or in-line comments both repro)
2. Invoke "Select enclosing element"

Expected result: selection is expanded semantically.  At the very least, I expect the surrounding word to be selected, then next invocation, perhaps the entire sentence, or at most the entire comment.

Actual result: Entire surrounding block (the entire class, usually?) is selected -- and thus, your carat is often moved far away from where it was.


More information:

Comment 1 Scott Evans

2009-05-15 15:31:27 EDT

Any update on this?

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2009-05-16 07:36:13 EDT

There are no plans to work on this but a patch is welcome.

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2009-05-18 05:08:30 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 86835 ***