[b0rg]

I want to suggest following tiny enhancements, which would greatly ease the day-to-day use of Eclipse:

* Enable Ctrl+TAB and Ctrl+Shift+TAB for jumping to Next resp. Previous Editor (don’t know what keyboard you have, but on mine Ctrl+F6 is a pain). E.g. if I’m in Package Explorer or Outline view, I want to jump directly back to the editor windows and switch between them directly with ctrl+tab. currently ctrl+tab jumps between the current view and the toolbar icons. summarized, like ctrl+f6, but with ctrl+tab.
* Allow “Rebuild Project” without having to click first into the Package explorer (I mean “Rebuild Project” not “Rebuild All”)
* Allow case insensitive sorting of files in the package explorer
* Enable jump to next/previous search match (with ctrl+. and ctrl+,) directly from the editor window, without having to switch between editor and search results window
* switch in the search window (ctrl+H) with ctrl+TAB between the panes. currently we have to use the mouse for this

[Riyad Kalla]

b0rg, I’ll send this all along to the internal guys, but from the sounds of it almost all of these things are handled by Eclipse, not necessarily ME. Are you using Eclipse 2.x for development? I’m asking because from what I hear keyboard shortcuts have been enhanced quite a bit in Eclipse 3.x, but I don’t use it so I don’t know.

[Scott Anderson]

Yep, these are really Eclipse enhancements. You might look at some of the CodePro products from Instantiations (www.instantiations.com). They’re famous for adding great usability enhancements to Eclipse itself.

[b0rg]

🙁 I knew this would be the answer! But thought I could give it a try… 🙂 I’m currently sticking with E 2.1.2 and not going to touch E 3 before GA 😉

The CodePro suite looks interesting, but it seems to me to be also plugin-based, and the things I want need mods of the Eclipse core afaics. On the other side, it’s time to get productive again, enough testing for the moment, back to work. And next week is Decision Week 😉

Thanks anyway,
Victor

[Riyad Kalla]

Victor sorry for the disappointment, we have to minimize how much we overlap into other domains so we can maximize our ‘punch’ in the web tooling arena. I support your decision to stick with 2.x until 3.x GA’s 🙂

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