Bug 100621 - File associations ignored by CVS Repositories view
Summary: File associations ignored by CVS Repositories view
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 37255
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Team (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform Team Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2005-06-17 13:12 EDT by Ken Dyck CLA
Modified: 2005-06-17 13:30 EDT (History)
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Description Ken Dyck CLA 2005-06-17 13:12:03 EDT 
The CVS Repositories view seems to open every file in the text editor,
regardless of whether there is a system editor or an internal Eclipse-defined
association for it. 

My manager noticed this when he tried to view a Word file in our CVS repository.
To view the file, he had to check it out to his workspace, then switch
perspectives to open it from the Resource view. It seems like an awful lot of
work just to view a file.

It'd be nice if the CVS Repositories view included the "Open with >" actions in
its context menu so users could choose which editor to use, but I'll file that
as a separate enhancement request.
Comment 1 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-06-17 13:30:54 EDT 
They are not ignore. We just don't support opening an external editor on 
remote contents (since external editors require the contents to be local). 
This could be faked out bu using a temp file as described in bug 37255.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37255 ***