RFR: 6955128: Spec for javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.getVisibleEditorRect contains inappropriate wording

[Tejesh R]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:43:23 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> BasicTextUI.getVisibleEditorRect wording is rephrased to remove the wording "Due to an unfortunate set of historical events this method is inappropriately named".

src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/basic/BasicTextUI.java line 1034:

> 1032:      * Gets the allocation to give the root View.
> 1033:      * The Rectangle returned has nothing to do with visibility but
> 1034:      * the method is thus named to preserve backward compatibility.

Suggestion:

     * the method name is preserved for backward compatibility.

If method name is retained from past then this sentence would be right ?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25850#discussion_r2153658561