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Build 20021001 1. Add the filetype "*.*" to the editor association preference page 2. Add the editor "Text Editor" for this filetype. 3. Double-click a file named blah.xml. 4. Instead of launching the text editor, a system editor is opened. If the filetype *.* is entered, any file which doesn't have a more specific association mapping should use the editor associated with *.* Background rant: Eclipse's default behavior for unknown filetypes is to open a "System editor" on it. For me (a command-line Linux user), this amounts to a "Random editor". I don't ever want Eclipse launching an external program unless I explicitly tell it to.
Duplicate of bug 20528?
This bug might fix Bug 20528, but fixing Bug 20528 won't fix this bug. The fact that the wildcard isn't handled correctly is related to, but independant from the default editor problem.
The file association preferences do not do match on extensions. I.E .* files means nothing for the current implementation since you can not have a file named "foo.*". Just tried it on Windows and extension "*" does not mean anything either. There is not sush thing as a more spectify extension. Either it the same extension of it is not.
You're confusing file names with regular expressions that can match to file names. When the user specifies a file association to files named "*.xml", they're not talking about files with the literal name "*.xml". The same goes for "foo.*" or "foo.htm*". If the user says they want to make an association for files named "*.htm*", that should mean that a file named "index.html" or "index.htm" would be match that association. Expressions are "more specific" as the number of characters increases and the number of wildcards decreases.
It does not work like that on Windows. How does it work on Linux? Do you know? Can you specify "*.htm*"? I am not thinking about regular expressions. I am saying that we get the extension of the file and see if it is EQUALS to the ones we have in the preferences page. We do not look for a better match and neither does Windows.
I'm a little confused by your comments. Which Win32 program are you talking about? If you mean the file association dialog in Windows Explorer, I just tested it on WinXP and you *can* specify htm* as an extension there. Eclipse's file association dialog isn't file extension based (xml, html, etc.), it's filename based (build.xml, project.xml, *.xml). The problem here is that we don't correctly handle wildcards in all situations.
The problem is NOT that we don't correctly handle wildcards in all situations. The fact is that we do not handle wildcards on extensions. Yes I am talking about Windows Explorer. Please try the following on XP (I just did on Win2000). Create a extension "fo*" and associate it with notepad. Then create the file "abc.foo" and double click on it to see if it opens notepad.
I haven't tried it yet, but I still don't understand why the MS Windows behavior is relevant here. Are we really interested in emulating Windows Explorer bugs/deficiencies?
Oh, and I didn't mean that we handle wildcards incorrectly in all situations. :) I meant that we don't handle them correctly in all possible cases. That is, there are positions that the user can place a wildcard which we don't handle.
No, but I am interested to know how it works in other apps specialy Windows and Linux. That why I asked you how it works on Linux and I told you that it does not work on Win2000.
Moving Dougs bugs
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
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.
