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Bug 40928

Summary:	[Wizards] CTRL+Backspace dosn't work in Commit wizard
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Paul Smith <psmith>
Component:	CVS	Assignee:	platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	brockj
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Paul Smith

2003-07-29 23:48:10 EDT

[This feature is reports against 3.0 M2 release, but because 2.x never had it 
either I'm guessing it inherited the behaviour]

Many of the editors etc already support CTRL+Backspace to delete the previous 
word, but there is a couple of spots that this feature is missing and the 
inconsistency bothers me a little, and I'm hoping it does for you guys too.

The areas that I know of that this feature does not work are:

* Open Type & Open Hierarchy 
* Team/CVS Commit messages (while you're there when's the auto-wrap function 
coming?)

(2.x releases would often put a funky square box when CTRL+Backspace was typed, 
but 3.0 at least degrades to a standard delete character left).

While not exactly an earth shattering feature, IMHO it rates higher than 
enhancement or trivial because:

a) inconsistency (all the other text editing components support it, be very neat 
and clean to be consistent across the board)

b) Bloody handy feature, particular when you have a brain melt and type 
something stupid (I will neither confirm nor deny whether this is my major 
problem ;) )

Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer

2003-07-31 04:50:59 EDT

The difference is that in "normal" dialog these are text entry fields. For 
those the native platform doesn't support Ctrl+Backspace hence it isn't 
available.

Comment 2 Paul Smith

2003-07-31 04:57:26 EDT

That makes sense, the same thing happens in Swing too I believe.  Is there a 
chance of tweaking the specific areas mentioned to a different component so this 
can be addressed?

cheers, and thanks for the reply

Paul

Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer

2004-01-05 09:35:17 EST

Converting to an enhancement since this requires feature work for entry fields.

Comment 4 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-06-12 08:08:32 EDT

In 3.2, CTRL+Backspace also works in the Open Type/Type Hierarchy dialog.
Moving to CVS

Comment 5 Brock Janiczak

2007-06-23 01:55:30 EDT

This was fixed in 3.3 when the comments area was implemented as a SourceViewer

Comment 6 Michael Valenta

2007-06-25 09:58:44 EDT

Thanks for the info. Marking as worksforme.