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Bug 418401

Summary:	[KeyBindings] F5 (Refresh) quits working in Project Explorer after a few usages
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Teddy Ted <teddy>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Paul Elder <pelder.eclipse>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	4.3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
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Description Teddy Ted

2013-10-01 04:53:22 EDT

I use a lot F5 (Refresh) in Project Explorer. After a few usages where the shortcut works fine, it quits working and I have to use the mouse to display the contextual menu and choose to refresh the selected resources from the menu - it's a time consuming task for me and I've noticed this behavior since 2 or 3 (even more?!) versions before. Please try and fix this. Thanks! Great work, Eclipse team, for this great product!

-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 2.0.1.20130919-0803 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.platform 4.3.1.v20130911-1000

Comment 1 Daniel Rolka

2013-10-01 05:06:16 EDT

I see you set this issue as the critical one, does it breaks the running Eclipse instance and you are not able to use it? If not please decrease the priority of the bug adequately

You can find some information about bug priorities on the following sites:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_Severity_and_Priority.3F
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Bug_Tracking

Daniel

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2013-10-01 07:11:59 EDT

Maybe you see bug 246483?

Comment 3 Teddy Ted

2013-10-01 08:08:38 EDT

Thanks Daniel and Dani.

Indeed, apparently this might be a conflicting situation where the F5 refresh key binding is interfering with the F5 Step In debug key binding.

I have redefined the Refresh key binding (^R) and it appears t be working ok now... I'll keep monitoring it. It's not a perfect solution, but it will do, for the moment.

I still consider this to be a bug, since, obviously, it's not a normal behavior: to have the key working at some time, but then, after you debug some code (apparently) to have it no longer functioning (may I note that during a debugging session I didn't use the Step Into F5 key binding at all - if it's of any help).

Cheers,
T.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2013-10-01 08:20:07 EDT

(In reply to Teddy Ted from comment #3)
> I still consider this to be a bug,

Sure, it's bug 246483 ;-).

> I didn't use the Step Into F5 key binding at all

In that case you could simply delete that key binding and continue to use F5 for refresh.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 246483 ***

Comment 5 Teddy Ted

2013-10-01 08:24:37 EDT

(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #4)
> In that case you could simply delete that key binding and continue to use F5
> for refresh.
Yes, it's another viable workaround. Thanks a lot for your time and patience!