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Bug 4799

Summary:

[Program] External editor selection shows document type name, not app name

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

apupier, fbricon, mistria, simon.lieschke, snorthov

Version:

2.0

Keywords:

bugday, helpwanted

Target Milestone:

---

Hardware:

All

OS:

Windows 2000

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
External editor selection in Eclipse Neon	none

Description Nick Edgar

2001-10-11 14:23:12 EDT

- in the File Editors pref page, choose add associated editor / external programs
- the list shows document type names, not application names
- for example, Notepad does not show up, but Text Document does;
similarly, WordPad does not show up, but WordPad Document does.

This is the list you get when you choose New... in Windows Explorer, not Open With...
(actually it shows many more items than New... shows).
The File Editors dialog should show the Open With... list

NOTES:

NE (08/22/01 11:22:40 AM)
	See also 1GIV8TL: ITPUI:WIN2000 - Can't open files in Notepad or Wordpad

EJP (9/25/2001 10:52:07 AM)
	We get the name from swt.Program.getName().
	Moving to SWT.

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2001-10-29 16:39:25 EST

PRODUCT VERSION:
132

Comment 2 Steve Northover

2005-05-10 15:04:43 EDT

BB owns Program now.

Comment 3 Mickael Istria

2016-11-10 11:19:37 EST

Is this still an issue on Windows with recent Eclipse? If not, let's close this bug as "WORKSFORME"

Comment 4 Simon Lieschke

2016-11-10 11:41:39 EST

Created attachment 265302 [details]
External editor selection in Eclipse Neon

I can confirm this is still a problem, see the attached screenshot from Eclipse Neon (4.6.1).

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2021-05-07 00:32:05 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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