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Currently EditorInputTransfer's will only try to open the file dropped in the editor area with the editor ID that is in the editor input. It should if that editor would launch externally try to open the file in the default editor. When doing a DND to the Editor Area for an EditorInputTransfer it calls EditorAreaDropAdapter.openNonExternalEditor(IWorkbenchPage, IEditorInput, String). In the case where where editorDesc.isOpenExternal() returns true openNonExternalEditor(IWorkbenchPage, IEditorInput, String) returns null. The other 2 openNonExternalEditor methods in EditorAreaDropAdapter will try to find an in-place OS editor and if it doesn't it will use the default editor to open the file. openNonExternalEditor(IWorkbenchPage, IMarker) calls openNonExternalEditor(IWorkbenchPage, IFile) to handle the case where editorDesc.isOpenExternal() is true.
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. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. 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.
