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Bug 361200

Summary: [typing] Block selection editing should provide an preference to ignore whitespaces/empty lines
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Radhakrishna Bhat <radhakrishna12>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: amj87.iitr, daniel_megert
Version: 3.8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Radhakrishna Bhat CLA 2011-10-18 01:00:49 EDT 
Build Identifier: Eclipse 3.7 20110615-0604

As of now when we have an empty line in between 2 lines of code, block selection editing also edits empty line. It would  be great if we have an option in preference to ignore whitespaces and empty lines.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Ayushman Jain CLA 2011-10-18 02:12:12 EDT 
Moving to JDT/UI.
Comment 2 Ayushman Jain CLA 2011-10-18 02:13:31 EDT 
Sorry moving to Platform/Text
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2011-10-18 02:15:13 EDT 
We also don't offer to ignore whitespace during normal copy. I don't plan to add this.
Comment 4 creacog CLA 2011-10-18 05:01:32 EDT 
Created attachment 205396 [details]
where ignore white space would be useful