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Bug 349143

Summary: Allow switch from 'Open Type' to 'Open Resource' and vice versa
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Joe Littlejohn <joelittlejohn>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Joe Littlejohn CLA 2011-06-12 09:33:21 EDT 
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As a Java developer I am constantly using the Ctrl-Alt-T and Ctrl-Alt-R shortcuts to open java types and other resources.

When jump to the Open Resource dialog, I often realise (after I start typing in a name) that I actually should have jumped to the Open Type dialog (and vice versa). It would be really useful if:

- 'Open Type' dialog would accept the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-R to switch to Open Resource with the current search text retained.

- 'Open Resource' dialog would accept the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-T to switch to Open Type with the current search text retained.

During a spell in the past using Intellij IDEA, I noticed that it was possible to do this (i.e. after using Ctrl-N to open a type, you could press Ctrl-Shift-N to change your dialog to open any file, and vice versa). It would be great to have this in Eclipse.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Joe Littlejohn CLA 2011-06-12 09:34:37 EDT 
Of course the opening sentence should read: 

> As a Java developer I am constantly using the Ctrl-Shift-T and Ctrl-Shift-R
> shortcuts to open java types and other resources.

doh!
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2011-06-12 17:21:24 EDT 
Pretty sure there's a bug about this already but can't find it right now...
Comment 3 Joe Littlejohn CLA 2011-06-12 18:02:25 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 279624 ***