Came across this behavior while testing scenarios around 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=359556

What I'm going to describe here is not really a bug ... but might need 
some discussion about whether or not this is desired use case behavior.

1) Open a Java perspective
2) Open two editors
3) Open the debug perspective

Of course, the two editors are open in the editor area.

4) drag one of the editors into some stack outside of the of the shared 
editor area.
5) switch to the Java perspective

So the editor dragged outside of the shared editor area is not visible in 
the Java perspective.  As a (wannabee)  E4 developer, I understand why. 
The stack I dropped it into in the debug perspective is not part of the 
Java perspective. 

But I wonder, is this really what the user would expect to happen?  Does 
the user community as a whole understand that it is the place where 
editors open by default that is magical and shared .... or is their mental 
model that editors are magical and shared.  I suppose it is obvious there 
is an editor area ... it has decorations that can minimize it.

Just thought I'd bring it up and see if anybody else finds this 
surprising.

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