I work with multiple monitors and I like to use several Eclipse windows and move the editors using drag and drop.
In the last versions (4.2+) I can't make this feature to work again.
For example in Kepler when I drag a editor it appears in a new small window, but without the menus (File/Edit/Run/etc) and toolbars.
How can I make drag and drop to work again like in previous version?
Drag and drop in JUNO
Drag and drop in KEPLER
Its not exactly Drag And Drop, but you can click on Window >> New Window, and you'll have 2 windows with all the options, and you'll be able to open files on both...
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My previous install of Eclipse allowed me to drag editor tabs to re-arrange their ordering. For example, if I cloned an editor window and the new tab appeared at the end of the tab row I could drag it to be next to the tab I cloned it from.
I don't know if the ability to drag tabs in my previous install was from a plugin or other modification I installed. To sum up, if I have editor tabs in the order:
TAB-a TAB-b TAB-c
I would like to be able to drag the editor tabs to re-order them:
TAB-a TAB-c TAB-b
I am using Eclipse 4.8, Photon, installed in the past week.
NOTE:
See comment below: it works now, but I don't know what I did to make it work
Recently started using Eclipse (4.2.2) with PDT for PHP dev. Having some issues if I have multiple editor containers open. Also I'm using Ubuntu, so dont know if that has any baring on it.
I like to drag out some of the tabs onto other screens giving them a windowed container outside of the main IDE. When I do this, copy and paste does not work on the child window, and instead acts like the cursor is still on the main code container.
If I have multiple editor containers within the original IDE window its fine, the problem only manifests itself when I drag the container into its own window.
Just noticed, it also wont let me undo / redo, or press 'delete' without having the same effect on the parent window. backspace however is fine
Is this a bug or 'feature'? And any idea how to fix it?
I have found that if inside of dragging an existing editor tab out into a new window, go to the "Window" menu and select "new editor". Then drag that out and things would work as we expect them to.
FYI - This does not appear to be Ubuntu specific as I have the same problem on OSX 10.8.5 running Eclipse Juno SR2.
Yes, it's a long standing bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=401835
Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any way to work around it other than restarting Eclipse.
Since Eclipse 3.7 (included) seems that the function of drag and drop editor tabs between eclipse windows has been removed (now the tab is disattached from the windows and its open in a new small window)
Is there any way to recover the previous behaviour?
In Eclipse, I can undock a panel and move it to my other monitor (making it easy to compare two pages at the same time. However, in Aptana, I can split the window's, but it won't let me pull the panel out to my other monitor. Is there a plugin I can install that will allow me to do this?
Update
I have Aptana 3.3.1, and I can detach a panel just fine (the console panel for example), but I want to be able to take a file that is in the editor, and move it to my other screen.
Click Window -> new Window.
You can then close all the unneeded panels in the new window, drag it over to the second screen and drop in your editor(s) there.
Hope that helps!
What version of Aptana are you using? In my 3.3.1, I can detach a panel and drag it to my second screen by right clicking on the panel name and choosing 'Detached' or by just dragging it away from the main window.
It seems that Eclipse WTP doesn't support drag & drop Editing. I feel terrible when I write web pages. So how can I use drag & drop in Eclipse WTP Editors?
I mean select some text in the editor then drag & drop it into some other position.
For moving texts within your editor quickly you could use the alternative short-cut alt+pageup or alt+pagedown.