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Bug 319280

Summary:	[block selection] Shift action does not honor block selection mode
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Christian Georgi <christian.georgi>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Christian Georgi

2010-07-08 11:03:11 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.6

When indenting a partial line in block selection mode like this (here only "comment" is selected)
// comment

This indents all characters of the line:
   // comment

Expectation is that only the intentionally selected block is indented:
//   comment

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tom Hofmann

2010-07-08 11:30:04 EDT

dup of #288430?

What do you mean by 'indent'?
- selecting the Source > Shift Right action¨
  - does what you describe
- using Ctrl+I or the Source > Fix Indentation action in a Java editor
  - does what you request
- pressing the Tab key
  - replaces 'comment' by the tab character

Comment 2 Christian Georgi

2010-07-08 11:39:04 EDT

Sorry, I was a bit imprecise: I meant indenting by pressing TAB.  It turns out that the effect only applies to multiple line.  Start with 
//comment
//comment

Now press TAB in block mode with both "comment" words selected.  This produces:
   //comment
   //comment

instead of expected
//   comment
//   comment

Comment 3 Tom Hofmann

2010-07-08 11:41:28 EDT

ok, dup of bug 288430 then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 288430 ***

Comment 4 Christian Georgi

2010-07-08 11:42:07 EDT

Right, this is a dup of 288430.  I absolutely see this is a valid use case,
have other colleagues complaining that Eclipse here does a "worse" job than
other text editors.