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
if (properties == null) {
			return null;
		}
			
		
		for (int i = 0; i < properties.length; i++) {
			report += properties[i].getDescription();
			if (i == properties.length - 1)
				report += NEWLINE;
			else
				report += DELIMITER;
		}
		
		for (int i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
			ConcreteMarker marker = markers[i];
			for (int j = 0; j < properties.length; j++) {
				report += properties[j].getValue(marker);
				if (j == properties.length - 1)
					report += NEWLINE;
				else
					report += DELIMITER;
			}
		}
		
		return report;
	}
}