I use a new agile practice called “interrupt-driven development” (IDD) 😉 in which I’m juggling tasks a lot. I’d like to use Mylyn to help maintain context. By context, in case it’s not clear, I primarily mean the set of filtered files in the explorer, and secondarily the set of open editor windows.
My problem is that I forget. I get an email, I start working on the issue, and 10 minutes later, I realize that I forgot to create a new task or activate an old one. By that time, I’ve opened much/most of the context that I need.
When I get to this point, is there any way to move or copy the files I mistakenly now have in one task’s context to another task’s context?
Right click anywhere in the task editor of the source task (or right click the source task in the task list) and select “Copy Context To”. A dialog will let you select the target.