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Bug 351159

Summary:	Smart paste in pom editor
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component:	m2e	Assignee:	Project Inbox <m2e.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	igor, mkleint
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Pascal Rapicault

2011-07-05 06:09:46 EDT

On a lot of webpage I can find snippets of XML explaining how to consume a library with Maven. It would be great if I could copy  those as is, paste them into the pom editor and have the editor take  care of putting them in the appropriate place in my XML.

Comment 1 Milos Kleint

2011-07-18 06:12:03 EDT

I see the main problem with the feature in discoverability. I personally would not expect the editor to do it so I would always paste into the right position only.
are there other examples of similar behaviour in other eclipse (xml) editors? 

2 main cases: 
a. enclosing element(s) is missing in the file - wrap the pasted snipped into the enclosing ones on paste at current location or best guess location. Do we take caret position in file as context? eg. when in <profile> do we generate the <dependencies> section in the profile?
b. enclosing elements are present elsewhere - paste in the right location and jump to the new location with caret

Comment 2 Igor Fedorenko

2013-09-28 23:50:52 EDT

closing old/stale bugreports

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2021-04-19 13:23:41 EDT

Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/