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Bug 361489 - Teach CDT Indexer to index c files with other extensions {like .ck, .hk etc} which have c source
Summary: Teach CDT Indexer to index c files with other extensions {like .ck, .hk etc} ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-indexer (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Markus Schorn CLA
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Reported: 2011-10-19 22:38 EDT by Purush Gupta CLA
Modified: 2011-10-31 10:13 EDT (History)
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Description Purush Gupta CLA 2011-10-19 22:38:24 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110916-0149

I use a toolchain that requires the c/h files be named with extensions .ck and .hk. I was wondering if there is a way that CDT indexer can treat those files during indexing operation

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Comment 1 Andrew Gvozdev CLA 2011-10-20 09:57:42 EDT 
It is possible to make LanguageManager.getLanguageForFile() retrieve language from MBS toolchain InputType and we can use this bug to consider that.

But perhaps in your case you should define a new content type in plugin.xml
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.core.contenttype.contentTypes">
      <file-association
            content-type="org.eclipse.cdt.core.cHeader"
            file-extensions="hk">
      </file-association>
      <file-association
            content-type="org.eclipse.cdt.core.cSource"
            file-extensions="ck">
      </file-association>
<!-- or
      <file-association
            content-type="org.eclipse.cdt.core.cxxSource"
            file-extensions="ck">
      </file-association>
-->
   </extension>
Comment 2 Chris Recoskie CLA 2011-10-20 10:22:02 EDT 
If you add those extensions to the proper C/C++ content types, I would think this would just work.
Comment 3 Purush Gupta CLA 2011-10-20 11:40:10 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> If you add those extensions to the proper C/C++ content types, I would think
> this would just work.

Thank you for your replies. 

Tried following 'how to' from http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/FAQ

How can I add another extension to CDT so that files other than c/cpp/cc/h files are recognized as source files? My compiler needs the file extension to be "xyz", and when I open xyz files there is no syntax highlighting.

>>> Seems to do the trick for me, but I noticed the tooltip does not work, I need to provide further info probably in new feature req

Regarding suggestion 1, it seems like I may have to rebuild the CDT from source unless there is a way to to change the plugin.xml in the default disto
Comment 4 Andrew Gvozdev CLA 2011-10-20 12:16:41 EDT 
Bugzilla is not really a proper place to ask questions, please use cdt-dev development list from https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo if you are plugin developer, or if you are not a developer ask at user forums http://www.eclipse.org/forums/ (select CDT).

But answering your question, you need to add that to the plugin which defines the toolchain which uses .ck and .hk. As a user (if you are not developing plugin) you can associate file extensions with the content types in Preferences->General->Content Types.
Comment 5 Markus Schorn CLA 2011-10-31 10:13:38 EDT 
I think the question has been answered.