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Bug 472277

Summary: [formatting][preferences] Preview text area in the Formatter preferences should be editable
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Roland Illig <rillig>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 4.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Roland Illig CLA 2015-07-09 07:58:30 EDT 
Assume that I have some source code that is currently unformatted. I want to format it and have a preview of exactly this code, how it looks with the new settings.

Currently, I have to open the formatter preferences, change some options, close the formatter preferences, format the code, reopen the formatter preferences, and so on.

It would be much easier if I could paste my existing code into the Preview text area, which would then replace the default text. When I change the formatting options, I can immediately see their effects in the preview window. Closing the formatter preferences would discard the custom text.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2015-07-15 08:22:36 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48952 ***