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Build Identifier: M20100211-1343 When editing a text file in any Eclipse text editor, the delete key should delete the one character to the right of the cursor. Instead, it opens a dialog asking if I'm sure I want to delete the entire project from the workspace. If I go into Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys and unbind the Delete command, then the delete key doesn't do anything at all. Restoring the command restores the highly undesirable functionality. The Delete key works exactly as expected (delete one character to the right of cursor) in all other applications outside of Eclipse. I'm running the version of Eclipse (3.5.2, M20100211-1343) that's available in the Ubuntu repositories for the latest version (Lucid Lynx). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any text file for editing. 2. position cursor so that there are characters to the right 3. press "Delete" or "Del"
(In reply to comment #0) > I'm running the version of Eclipse (3.5.2, M20100211-1343) that's available in > the Ubuntu repositories for the latest version (Lucid Lynx). Can you reproduce the problem with an Eclipse.org download? http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
This works correctly for us (the character gets deleted) in both eclipse 3.6 and eclipse 3.5.2 (M20100211-1343). Are you working in a .txt file, or a language editor (java, php, c/c++, etc). PW
I hate it when this happens, but it's suddenly working now. I noticed that after Restoring the key binding to do some more experimenting with different file types to answer Paul's question, the Delete key was still not doing anything, so restarted Eclipse, and now the delete key works as expected. <sigh><grumble>. I'll reopen this ticket if it starts happening again and try to provide more info.
