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Bug 200444 - [IDE] Remove "Copy of" when copying a file
Summary: [IDE] Remove "Copy of" when copying a file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.5 M6   Edit
Assignee: Markus Keller CLA
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Blocks: 151668
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Reported: 2007-08-17 22:19 EDT by Etienne Lacombe CLA
Modified: 2018-07-04 03:36 EDT (History)
5 users (show)

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Modified language file without the copy of (41.58 KB, text/plain)
2007-08-17 22:19 EDT, Etienne Lacombe CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Etienne Lacombe CLA 2007-08-17 22:19:37 EDT 
Created attachment 76361 [details]
Modified language file without the copy of

Build ID: 3.3.0 - I20070625-1500

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Copy a file (CTRL+C) in Package Explorer.
2. Paste (CTRL+V).
3. The prompt for the new name (great idea) is pre-filled with "Copy of [name of file]" (copy of is a bad idea). 

The "Copy of" is annoying - I always have to delete it. Who wants a file named "Copy of"? Maybe in very rare scenario?

I suggest that this be removed.


More information:
Comment 1 Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-08-18 04:46:50 EDT 
Yeah, it would be much better if instead it were XxxCopy by default. That way, in any kind of alphabetical listing, it's more likely to be next to it than anything else. Plus, as the suffix, it's easier to delete when people don't want it.

Alex.
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-08-20 16:33:17 EDT 
There are currently no plans to address this.
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-08-20 16:33:33 EDT 
marking WONTFIX
Comment 4 Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-08-20 17:11:07 EDT 
Is this closed WONTFIX because it will never be fixed, or because you don't have time to fix it? If it's the latter, why not leave it open so that someone can create a patch?
Comment 5 Etienne Lacombe CLA 2007-08-20 18:57:41 EDT 
With a hint, I'm sure I could make a patch.. My earlier attempt does not seem to work.
Comment 6 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-08-21 07:24:27 EDT 
I would mark it helpwanted if I was after a patch.

if there is strong enough consensus over a change (i.e. a high number of votes) we could just change it. But making changes to long standing functionality requires more consensus than we have on this.
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2013-10-23 11:32:35 EDT 
Reopening as per bug 151668 comment 4.
Comment 8 Markus Keller CLA 2014-04-17 05:59:42 EDT 
Comment on attachment 76361 [details]
Modified language file without the copy of

The prefix is indeed bad. We should just append "2" to the existing name, unless the name already ends in a number. In that case, we should increment the number by 1 until the resulting name is available.

I didn't look at the attached file, but it's useless since it's not a patch.

See also bug 151668
Comment 9 Markus Keller CLA 2014-07-16 14:22:59 EDT 
Yves, could you provide a patch that does the same as the final fix for bug 151668 in the Navigator and Project Explorer views as well?

The change probably goes to CopyFilesAndFoldersOperation#getAutoNewNameFor(IPath, IWorkspace)
Comment 10 Yves Joan CLA 2014-07-17 04:32:06 EDT 
Makes sense, will look at it !
Comment 11 Paul Webster CLA 2014-09-29 10:32:24 EDT 
Yves, if you're still interested in contributing this see https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute

PW
Comment 12 Markus Keller CLA 2015-02-23 11:25:51 EST 
Yves is no longer working on this. Fixed with http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=e3b23a28cbe9d26020d07acd778e2dc2c4d84fe6