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Bug 395949

Summary: Enable copying resource filters
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Chris Long <chrislong>
Component: IDEAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: pwebster
Version: 4.2Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Chris Long CLA 2012-12-06 11:05:01 EST 
It would be nice to be able to copy resource filters from one file to another. I have a couple of folders linked to my workspace from elsewhere in the file system, and I realized I'd like to copy the set of filters I just set on one of them to the other one.

I've thought of a few ways this might be done in the UI:

1. Add a Copy button to the "Resource Filters" property page, and (one or more of)
   a. Add a Paste button, too.
   b. Cause Copy to bring up a dialog for selecting the target to copy to
   c. Enable Paste on the file (e.g, in the Navigator)
2. Add items to the context menu in a file view (e.g., Navigator), like "Copy Filters".

A workaround is to put the folders that should have the same filters under a common parent. The problem is that it breaks the paths I've set up elsewhere in the project (e.g., classpath).

I thought about closing the project and copying the configuration manually in the relevant xml file (.project, I think), but every filter has an "id", so I don't know if that would actually work.

Thanks for your work on Eclipse.
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-27 07:24:27 EST 
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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it.
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still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is
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