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Bug 68832

Summary:	double click in display view selects whole line
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Grzegorz Grzybek <gzres>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, markus.kell.r, Michael_Rennie
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	3.8 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Grzegorz Grzybek

2004-06-29 03:11:28 EDT

in earlier releases (2.1.x) double clicking in display view in debug perspective
selected single word (re = \b.*\b). in 3.0 double clicking selects whole line no
matter where I click.
this is confusing and strange - was that intended?

Comment 1 Kevin Barnes

2004-06-29 10:10:32 EDT

This was intentional. See Bug 45481 for details.

Comment 2 Darin Wright

2004-06-30 09:10:57 EDT

Marking as won't fix, as this was intentional.

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2012-03-05 08:29:07 EST

Bug 45481 was a very bad idea and should be reverted.

Double-click has a well-defined meaning (select word), and this is broken not only in the Display view, but also in the breakpoints condition editor, etc.

Use triple click to select a whole line, and triple-click-drag (keeping the mouse down on the third click) to select multiple lines.

Comment 4 Michael Rennie

2012-03-05 11:04:02 EST

I agree that we should not change the notion of what double / triple click do, that is why I pushed the change to revert to the default behavior to:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.debug.git/commit/?id=473a726270ed527d7e83283bf3d47a8fec0747e1

Thanks for finding + reopening this Markus.

Comment 5 Markus Keller

2012-03-05 13:02:53 EST

Thanks a lot.

I should have investigated this much earlier, but I always thought it would be hard to fix, since I didn't imagine code that actively destroys the right behavior...

Comment 6 Michael Rennie

2012-03-14 11:44:45 EDT

Verified in:

Version: 4.2.0
Build id: I20120313-0610