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The Open External File command should have its own toolbar icon right next to the New icon. It should be something standard like an icon of a folder opening. See the Fileopen plugin for an example (eclipsepowered.org), or any Windows program like Textpad.
Is this feature no longer supported? I was thinking how useful it would be to be able to open and edit an arbitrary external file, and discovered this bug report (and 4 others like it) that seemed to indicate this was an old feature that got dropped at some point. Why is this? It would seem to me to be a simple, powerful thing to be able to use Eclipse as a general editor. Right now on Linux, if I want to edit a file that isn't already part of a project or managed by my workspace, I have to go to a terminal, cd to the directory and type "gedit foo.txt". A lot of work if I already have Eclipse (with powerful editing capabilities) already running.
It's still in the File menu if enabled. It was never on the tool bar. To enable it: Window > Customize Perspective... > Commands Page Check "Open External Files" group
Thanks, I noticed that the menu option is enabled by default on Windows. Maybe it's disabled by default on Linux because it just plain doesn't work well there at all. I tried opening both an .html file and a .txt file, and it gave me an error opening the file saying it was unable to create the part.
It is not disabled on Linux - works fine for me with I20040420 on rh9 both for Java and text files.
Perhaps the problem is that I'm using RH 8 (with the built-in GTK 2.06)?
As long as we do not have a common dialog which allows to open workspace and external files this is not a good move.
Just for the record, I don't agree. The external file open dialog can open workspace files and non-workspace files just fine. There is a New and Save toolbar button so not having Open there is wierd.
Get rid of deprecated state.
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.
