Summary: | Rename "Text Editor" to "Simple Text Editor" and "Generic Text Editor" to "Text Editor" to guide the user in using the better text editor | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel> |
Component: | Text | Assignee: | Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | akurtako, Lars.Vogel, mistria, pyvesdev, thatnitind |
Version: | 4.13 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Description
Lars Vogel
2019-10-19 07:13:42 EDT
The Generic Editor isn't really more interesting than the Text Editor unless it has some extensions, and developers of such extensions are supposed to register a content-type/editor association with Generic Editor so it is the default for the files it supports better. I don't think changing the terminology really helps. If you want to open the Generic Editor because it works better, but it doesn't open by default, it means thatn the plugin that provides the valuable extensions simply missed to associate the generic editor as appropriate. Eclipse saves the editor association, so if I start using the normal Text Editor for a file, it will still be used even if I added later extensions. So opening initially the better editor is IMHO the right thing to do. If you want the user to know the options have changed when reopening an old file, maybe that's the use case to improve. Renaming the editors doesn't help users who install WTP, or CDT, or other tools after having opened the file types they support. |