org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/texteditor/ToMultiSelectionHandler.java

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package org.eclipse.ui.internal.texteditor;

import org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractHandler;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionException;

import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;

import org.eclipse.jface.text.IBlockTextSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.IDocument;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.IMultiTextSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.IRegion;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.MultiTextSelection;

import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorPart;
import org.eclipse.ui.handlers.HandlerUtil;

import org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ITextEditor;
import org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ITextEditorExtension5;

public class ToMultiSelectionHandler extends AbstractHandler {

	@Override
	public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException {
		IEditorPart editor = HandlerUtil.getActiveEditor(event);
		if (!(editor instanceof ITextEditor)) {
			return null;
		}
		ITextEditor textEditor = (ITextEditor) editor;
		ISelection selection = textEditor.getSelectionProvider().getSelection();
		if (!(selection instanceof IBlockTextSelection)) {
			return null;
		}
		IBlockTextSelection blockSelection = (IBlockTextSelection) selection;
		IRegion[] initialRegions = ((IMultiTextSelection) blockSelection).getRegions();
		IDocument document = textEditor.getDocumentProvider().getDocument(editor.getEditorInput());
		if (document == null) {
			return null;
		}
		IMultiTextSelection newSelection = new MultiTextSelection(document, initialRegions);
		if (!(editor instanceof ITextEditorExtension5)) {
			return null;
		}
		ITextEditorExtension5 ext = (ITextEditorExtension5) editor;
		ext.setBlockSelectionMode(false);
		textEditor.getSelectionProvider().setSelection(newSelection);
		return newSelection;
	}

}