Bug 69681 - [EditorMgmt] Add "Open with" to editor tab menu
Summary: [EditorMgmt] Add "Open with" to editor tab menu
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Reported: 2004-07-08 19:28 EDT by h4gvfvy8j001 CLA
Modified: 2014-02-13 08:15 EST (History)
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Description h4gvfvy8j001 CLA 2004-07-08 19:28:14 EDT 
Since I sometimes want to use the built-in Java editor, and sometimes an
external editor (which shall remain nameless), I would like a menu item in one
of the editor menus to open the file in whatever external editor(s) I've defined
(with Windows > Preferences > Workbench > File Associations).

This would be different from the one in the Navigator telling which editor I
want to open a given file with; this is for situations where I'm working in the
internal editor and realize that an external editor could do what I want more
quickly.
Comment 1 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2006-04-21 13:18:50 EDT 
Moving Dougs bugs
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2007-08-29 10:24:30 EDT 
This could either go into the editor tab menu (next to "New Editor") or into all editors' context menus (next to "Show In").
Comment 3 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-06-30 17:22:01 EDT 
reassigning according to 2009 platform UI triage process
Comment 4 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-06 18:19:49 EDT 
*** Bug 281830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-17 12:59:44 EST 
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2010-06-04 03:08:29 EDT 
See also bug 315722.
Comment 7 Markus Keller CLA 2010-06-04 06:05:20 EDT 
Even after bug 315722 adds 'Open With >' to the context menu of textual editors, it would still make sense to have it in the editor tab menu as well.

We shouldn't force it into the context menu of every editor, since it is not equally interesting in all editors (and I'm not sure if we could do that at all). Still, a shorter way than 'Show In > Navigator; Open With > ...' would be nice to have in general.
Comment 8 Andre Bossert CLA 2014-02-13 06:58:47 EST 
The proposed solution from my duplicate "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281830" is already implemented. So for me it's fine :)