thanks, these are all good suggestions.

The best way to see this happen is to file individual bugs against the JDT (Java Development Tools) component (see link below). This way the committers working on this will be made aware of your ideas. This would be the first step towards having something in the next version. Right now the timing is good, since the feature freeze is still 4-5 months away. The second step would be to work with them and write some code that addresses these issues. Eclipse is free and therefore depends heavily on community bug and code contributions to continue getting better.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=JDT

Kind regards,
Elias.

* If I write the name of a method and the parameter name is “eventParam” and I have a local variable named param declared two lines ago, propose that instead of the “fooChild” attribute of the class, or, even worse, nothing at all.
* If I write some expression that happens to have some ‘(‘ included, do not overthink and move my cursor somewhere else because a [return] key was detected. Multi-line expressions exist!
* Alt+Ctrl+J inside a comment does not handle the extra ‘*’ properly, as [return] does.

Please don’t get me wrong, I like eclipse but this is the bread and butter of coding and it’s like nobody cares.

The PDE team is working on slicker p2 integration in the next milestone. The whole target should be managed by p2 by the end of the Eclipse 3.6 M4 release.

Look for functionality that allows you to easily add things to your targets.