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Bug 321860

Summary: [EditorMgmt] IWorkbenchPage's javadoc needs to be updated with regards to its claim about editors and editor inputs
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Remy Suen CLA 2010-08-05 09:03:46 EDT 
http://help.eclipse.org/helios/nftopic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/ui/IWorkbenchPage.html

The number of views and editors within a page is restricted to simplify part management for the user. In particular:

* Unless a view explicitly allows for multiple instances in its plug-in declaration there will be only one instance in a given workbench page.
* Only one editor can exist for each editor input within a page.

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Of course, the claim in the second bullet is incorrect. You can have multiple editors with the same input, it is as easy as going 'Window > New Editor'.
Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:08:46 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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