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Bug 6665

Summary: Editor Operations from Package view, Multi-Select/Batch operations from Views
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Andrew McCullough <mccull1>
Component: UIAssignee: Erich Gamma <erich_gamma>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Andrew McCullough CLA 2001-12-06 19:07:16 EST 
It would be nice if editor operations were available from the packages view.  
For example, I have found myself wanting to do format code, organize imports, 
etc, on a number of classes at once.  Adding them to the context menu in the 
packages view is step one.  Making them available to all-selected-elements is 
step 2.  A minor request, perhaps, but it would be nice... :)

Also, it would be helpful if all the operations available on the context menu 
of a single class were available in batch mode with multiple classes selected 
(Example: rename).
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-03-07 04:37:40 EST 
agreed would be nice, but we can't commit to it for 2.0
Comment 2 Andrew McCullough CLA 2002-04-21 14:39:57 EDT 
With the introduction of the "Source" menu, it seems like a natural to add this 
functionality when types are selected, just like 'override methods' is 
enabled.  In fact, I almost expected that I would be able to format code on 
selected types.  Any chance at all of getting this into R2.0?  

-Andrew
Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-07-25 14:33:15 EDT 
Its partly implemented for organize imports (on packages and files) and we are 
investigating on format as well for 2.1.
Comment 4 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-07-25 14:34:21 EDT 
See also http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18703

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12144 ***