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Bug 129815

Summary:	Command to join/combine lines of text
Product:	editor	Reporter:	mbarnes <mbarnes>
Component:	Actions/Menu/Toolbar	Assignee:	Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	blocker	CC:	janicki, markiewb
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description mbarnes 2008-03-11 17:40:14 UTC

I'd would find it useful to have an editor command to join (combine) two (or more) lines into one line, like the 'j'
command in "vi".

Join the current line with the line below it, or join the selected lines if more than one line is selected.

Comment 1 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-03-12 12:37:43 UTC

Could be useful. Maybe you could record a simple macro to do this.

Comment 2 markiewb 2012-11-18 15:05:46 UTC

It can be emulated by a macro. See http://forums.netbeans.org/topic4496.html

<code>
caret-end-line selection-down selection-first-non-white remove-selection 
</code?

Comment 3 markiewb 2012-12-17 18:52:49 UTC

Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue doesn't get lost.

Comment 4 markiewb 2012-12-17 19:04:15 UTC

Set target-milestone of open issue to TBD (was < 7.3, f.e. 6.8), so the issue
doesn't get lost. This time the target milestone is really set.

Comment 5 Fleshgrinder 2013-05-24 21:52:01 UTC

The macro from the forum doesn't really do the same as Ctrl + J in nearly all other programs out there. By pressing Ctrl + J only newlines are removed and they are removed from every line that is currently selected / or between the current caret line and the next line.

Example (the pipe | represents the caret):

foo|
  bar
  foobar

-> becomes ->

foo|  bar
  foobar

Example (the brackets [] represent the selection):

[foo
  bar
  foobar]

-> becomes ->

[foo  bar  foobar]

Comment 6 markiewb 2013-06-12 22:38:08 UTC

*** Bug 180883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:27:47 UTC

This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss

Comment 8 janicki 2016-07-07 11:07:44 UTC

Tested with NetBeans IDE Dev Build 201607070002.  I don't think this enhancement suggestion has been addressed yet.