Cas Editor: selecting annotation type

[Jens Grivolla]

Hi,

I have recently started using the Annotation Editor (as installed in 
Eclipse from http://www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site/, i.e. 
the official 2.3.1 version).

In order to add annotations it seems that you need to select the 
annotation type through the "Mode" context menu, which is quite time 
consuming (and error prone) if you have a large type system, and 
especially when the wanted type is derived through several levels of 
supertypes.  Given that you already select the types of interest through 
the "Annotation Styles" configuration, it would be much faster to e.g. 
select your annotation mode directly from the Outline view (which only 
contains your chosen subset).

It seems that there are quite a few changes in the trunk, but I'm not 
sure how to best use those versions, preferably without messing up my 
Eclipse configuration (which is a bit fragile when using manually 
installed plugins).

Thanks,
Jens