Bug 22478

Summary: [Editor Mgmt] Need to use Eclipse Java editor on external Java files [general issue]
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Robert Mitchell <robert.mitchell>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description Robert Mitchell CLA 2002-08-15 12:18:29 EDT 
This may well be a duplicate feature request, but if so I can't find it.

I like to run with Eclipse up all the time.  Many of the Java files I
work with are not in Eclipse projects.  I want to be able to find these
using Microsoft Explore, double click on the file name to invoke the Open
action, and have the file appear in the EClipse Java Editor.  Maybe in a
special "External" project.  If this worked I could get rid of JBuilder
for good.
 - Robert Mitchell
Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-08-15 12:26:09 EDT 
This is a more general issue. If we add support we should add it for all Java 
files.
Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-08-19 04:37:25 EDT 
The above should read: if we add this feature it should work for all file types 
not only for Java files.
Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-08-31 10:02:26 EDT 
Moving to platform for comments
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2002-09-23 17:56:42 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4922 ***