Compare with Clipboard in XML Editor is not working with a leading whitespace on the line

[jmini]

Step to reproduce Create a simple XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
 <item>first</item>
    <item>second</item>
</root>

Copy "test" into the clipboard

(1) Select "<item>first</item>" (without any space) in the XML document, and select "Compare with > Clipboard". You get the expected result:

(2) Now select the complete line " <item>first</item>" (with or without the line return character), select "Compare with > Clipboard" as in this screenshot:

Nothing happened. I do not see any Stacktrace or Error Log entry.

Tested with version 2.6.1.201602151951 of the AnyEdit Plugin. Eclipse buildId 4.6.0.I20160606-1100 (Eclipse Neon Release) win32 x86_64 JDK: jdk1.8.0_66

[iloveeclipse]

I can't reproduce. Does it happen with XML files only and with this specific editor only? Can you open this file in the default text editor and check if this works?

[jmini]

Of course only the XML Editor is broken… With the Text Editor, the same test:

produces the expected result:

Our main use case is to use the "Compare with Clipboard" feature in the Maven Editor ("pom.xml" Tab) which is also broken. I have retried it on a fresh "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" installation.

I realize that the problem might not be in the AnyEdit plugin but in the XML Editor. I hope you can help with the analysis.

[iloveeclipse]

Please provide here exact editor ids which aren't OK for you. You can get them if you enter alt+shift+f1 being in the editor. Also please provide info from where one can install those editors.

[jmini]

Installation

I have installed "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" with the Oomph installer. You can also get it: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/neonr

I needed to additionally install the Plugin Selection Spy plugin (release train update site, org.eclipse.pde.source.feature.group, "Eclipse PDE Plug-in Developer Resources"). Otherwise there is no Alt+Shift+F1 key binding installed in Neon.

First case: XML Editor

The active editor class: XMLMultiPageEditorPart The contributing plug-in: org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui (1.1.700.v201604272318) The active editor identifier: org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.internal.tabletree.XMLMultiPageEditorPart The active menu contribution identifiers: org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.editor

Create a new file NewFile.xml (open with "XML Editor", switch to the "source" Tab).

Second case: Maven POM Editor

The active editor class: MavenPomEditor The contributing plug-in: org.eclipse.m2e.editor (1.7.0.20160603-1933) The active editor identifier: org.eclipse.m2e.editor.MavenPomEditor

Create a new "Maven Project" open the pom.xml file (open with "Maven POM Editor", switch to the "pom.xml" Tab).

Thank you in advance.

[xerces8]

I have a problem which is probably related: Compare with Clipboard does not work in JSP Editor if I try to compare against selection. Comparing with entire file (no selection is made) works fine.

Also, the problem does not happen always. I don't know what makes the difference (it is not a matter of leading white space like in the original report).

This happened in Eclipse Kepler Service Release 2 and now in Neon.1:

Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.

Version: Neon.1 Release (4.6.1) Build id: 20160913-0900

with:

AnyEditTools 2.6.1.201602151951 AnyEditTools.feature.group Andrey Loskutov

Editor is "JSP Editor": The active editor class: StructuredTextEditor The contributing plug-in: org.eclipse.jst.jsp.ui (1.1.1100.v201605092203) The active editor identifier: org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.jspsource.source The active menu contribution identifiers: org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.jspsource.source.EditorContext #AbstractTextEditorContext #AbstractTextEditorRulerContext org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.jspsource.source.RulerContext #OverviewRulerContext org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.StructuredTextEditor.EditorContext org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.jspsource.source.source.EditorContext org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.StructuredTextEditor.RulerContext org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.jspsource.source.source.RulerContext

[Matze2]

Just for your interest: I can confirm that this is still true with XML editors using Oxygen.2 and AnyEditTools 2.7.1. As a workaround we open the files in plain text editors and compare from there.