Bug 221264 - [filetransfer][ui] add hyperlink detectors to text editors for file download
Summary: [filetransfer][ui] add hyperlink detectors to text editors for file download
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: ECF
Classification: RT
Component: ecf.filetransfer (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: ecf.core-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2008-03-04 00:00 EST by Scott Lewis CLA
Modified: 2014-05-09 13:15 EDT (History)
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Description Scott Lewis CLA 2008-03-04 00:00:10 EST 
Currently the Eclipse platform detects http/https URLs in text editors (DefaultTextEditor) and the associated hyperlink detector opens a browser when clicked.  

It would be useful for http/https urls to allow the user to select a 'Save Link As...' context menu and bring up the FileTransfersView download initiation dialog.  I don't know what the user interface is for multiple hyperlink detectors active for a given hyperlink type in the Eclipse platform (or how the user selects among them).

Also be nice to have a hyperlink detector for scp to initiate scp download, as well as efs.
Comment 1 Scott Lewis CLA 2008-03-16 13:02:50 EDT 
This has been done for SCP (i.e. URLs of form scp://username@host/path/file.ext will be detected with hyperlink that when clicked will open file download dialog).

To add this to other URLs (e.g. http/https, etc) we will have to depend upon code added to Eclipse Platform UI in 3.4 M6.
Comment 2 Scott Lewis CLA 2014-05-09 13:15:03 EDT 
Resolving as wontfix.  If committer or contributor resources become available, then please reopen.