I solved this by using IBM Installation Manager to check for updates to Rational Application Developer. A fix for this specific bug (Delete and other keys not working in XML source) was included in iFix 2 for Rational Application Developer v8.5.1.
How to install specific Eclipse IDE fix in Rational Application Developer?
Question
I'm using IBM Rational Application Developer v8.5.1, which is based on the Eclipse Platform v3.6.3.
There's a bug where the Delete key doesn't work in the Source view of some XML editors.
This seems like it might be a known bug such as https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=395642
Comment 19 in the linked bug links to some fixes in a Git repository. The one for my Eclipse version is http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?h=R3_6_maintenance&id=791b8203f5047b592378ae57bc6dfc2448b8bbe5
Is there a way to install this fix in my RAD installation from the Git repository?
Alternately, is there a specific update site from which to get this fix?
I've tried a few of the update sites that RAD includes by default, and can't see any updates relevant to this.
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