Bug 49033 Select-All / Copy in Problems View => Spinning Pizza (seems to be infinite)
Eclipse 3.0M5 (eclipse-SDK-3-1.0M5-macosx-carbon.tar) java -version java version "1.4.1_01" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1_01-99) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1_01-27, mixed mode) do this: 1) create a project with lots of error messages (for instance, remove JDK from the build path) 2) switch to "Problems" view 3) select all (cmd-A) 4) copy (Edit->copy or cmd-C) expected result: copy contents result: Eclipse seems to freeze. Have to force-quit. CPU utilization is at around 80%. spinning pizza ball for a long time. i force-quit after about 2 - 3 minutes. (PowerBook 667 w/ 512M RAM, e.g. not an unreasonably slow system, running Panther) So either copy is extremely inefficient in this view, or there is some bug. i suspect the latter. i had about 1400 errors in the problems pane at the time (filtered out warnings). the windows version did not have any problem with this.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/src/org/eclipse/ui/views/markers/internal/ActionCopyMarker.java
super(provider, Messages.getString("copyAction.title")); 
		this.part = part;
		setImageDescriptor(PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getSharedImages().getImageDescriptor(ISharedImages.IMG_TOOL_COPY_HOVER));
		setEnabled(false);
	}
	
	/**
	 * Sets the clipboard that the marker(s) will be copied to.
	 * @param clipboard the clipboard
	 */
	void setClipboard(Clipboard clipboard) {
		this.clipboard = clipboard;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Sets the properties to be added to the plain-text marker report that 
	 * will be copied to the clipboard.
	 * @param properties
	 */
	void setProperties(IField[] properties) {
		this.properties = properties;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Copies the selected IMarker objects to the clipboard. If properties have 
	 * been set, also copies a plain-text report of the selected markers to the
	 * clipboard.
	 */
	public void run() {
		IStructuredSelection selection = getStructuredSelection();