Substeps Eclipse plugin request - to add click functionality

[gstu...@learndirect.co.uk]

Hi,
We would like to request some new functionality for the Eclipse plugin please.

At the moment the Eclipse plugin does not allow the user to click on a Substep line and be taken to the Java implementation or Substep definition. This would be a great help when tracking through code in both the feature and substeps files.

Many thanks,
Gary

[Paul Berry]

If you put the cursor on the line you want to refer to and hit F3, this will take you to the substep definition (if it exists).

Regards,
Paul

[gstu...@learndirect.co.uk]

Hi Paul,
That's excellent. Many thanks for that tip. I usually use CTRL+click rather than F3, but I'll share that tip with our other developers and testers. It only seems to work for Substeps definitions, and not step implementations though. Is that a possible enhancement? Also, would it be easy to add 'CTRL+click' functionality, like Eclipse uses for Java?
Many thanks,
Gary

[Ian Moore]

Hi Gary,

Yes that's right, at present, it only works for substep definitions - I have a preference for the keyboard myself and so didn't implement the Ctrl+Click - in fact I didn't know you could even do that in eclipse until someone suggested it!  Adding the Ctrl+Click to the existing functionality shouldn't be too difficult, increasing scope to include step implementations - possibly a bit harder, but certainly possible - this feature is certainly on our radar - perhaps we'll look to publishing that ( and the long awaited eclipse plugin docs!).  We'd be more than happy to accept pull requests though if you're up for a challenge! :-)

thanks for the suggestion!
cheers
Ian