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Bug 240405

Summary:	[EditorMgmt] Editors extension point needs ability to filter on more then just file name, extensions, and content
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Ian Tewksbury <tewksbur>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cbridgha, daniel_megert
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Ian Tewksbury

2008-07-10 16:46:02 EDT

An adapter has an org.eclipse.ui.editors extension that should only be associated with files with a specific name that are within specific project types.

Currently the only filtering for how a Editor is applied to a file is by its name and its content.  But in this particular case it is also important what type of project the particular file is in but there is no way to filter on this when matching the editor extension with a particular file thus causing the editor to be inappropriately associated with files of the same name but in the wrong types of projects.

Comment 1 Boris Bokowski

2008-07-15 03:32:24 EDT

"within specific project types" - how exactly do you think this should be specified?

Also, do you think the best way to support your use case would be a change to the editors extension point, or to the way that content types are computed?

Comment 2 Boris Bokowski

2008-07-15 03:33:43 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> "within specific project types" - how exactly do you think this should be
> specified?

Note that the editors extension point is in the org.eclipse.ui plug-in, which does not depend on org.eclipse.core.resources and thus has no way to talk about projects in a workspace.

Comment 3 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-17 13:03:22 EST

Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2012-01-17 11:42:28 EST

We don't plan to add this. However, the new 'org.eclipse.ui.ide.editorAssociationOverride' extension point should fit your needs. See bug 251776 for more details.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251776 ***