Bug 4799 - [Program] External editor selection shows document type name, not app name
Summary: [Program] External editor selection shows document type name, not app name
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All Windows 2000
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
Keywords: bugday, helpwanted
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Reported: 2001-10-11 14:23 EDT by Nick Edgar CLA
Modified: 2021-05-07 00:32 EDT (History)
5 users (show)

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External editor selection in Eclipse Neon (64.43 KB, image/png)
2016-11-10 11:41 EST, Simon Lieschke CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Nick Edgar CLA 2001-10-11 14:23:12 EDT 
- in the File Editors pref page, choose add associated editor / external programs
- the list shows document type names, not application names
- for example, Notepad does not show up, but Text Document does;
similarly, WordPad does not show up, but WordPad Document does.

This is the list you get when you choose New... in Windows Explorer, not Open With...
(actually it shows many more items than New... shows).
The File Editors dialog should show the Open With... list

NOTES:

NE (08/22/01 11:22:40 AM)
	See also 1GIV8TL: ITPUI:WIN2000 - Can't open files in Notepad or Wordpad

EJP (9/25/2001 10:52:07 AM)
	We get the name from swt.Program.getName().
	Moving to SWT.
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 16:39:25 EST 
PRODUCT VERSION:
132
Comment 2 Steve Northover CLA 2005-05-10 15:04:43 EDT 
BB owns Program now.
Comment 3 Mickael Istria CLA 2016-11-10 11:19:37 EST 
Is this still an issue on Windows with recent Eclipse? If not, let's close this bug as "WORKSFORME"
Comment 4 Simon Lieschke CLA 2016-11-10 11:41:39 EST 
Created attachment 265302 [details]
External editor selection in Eclipse Neon

I can confirm this is still a problem, see the attached screenshot from Eclipse Neon (4.6.1).
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-05-07 00:32:05 EDT 
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. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. 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.

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