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The content types preference page shows a tree of file formats. My first thought was "Cool. Let's try to create a 'C++' content type.", so I selected "Text", clicked "Add...", and was only able to add a file extension. It should be possible to create new content types and rearrange the default ones (for example, I may want to create a global or 'binary' content type, make 'text' and 'Java Class File' both children of it, and register a hex editor on the 'binary' content type).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57908 ***
Reopening. bug 57908 requests programmatic control, this bug requests end-user control.
Remy is now responsible for watching the [EditorMgmt] component area.
Here's another content types bug that may be relevant for the generic text editor.
*** Bug 500892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/83710 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=942e3d85fd1cd3fcdae0fdb83a11a89a79e74d71
As the Resources part was merged, I did merge the foolowing UI part which introduce no risk of regression at all. There is most likely still room for improvements (better labels or things like that), but it will probably be easier to get feedback if this is part of next milestone.
Added to N&N: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7/M4/#manually-create-content-types
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #8) > Added to N&N: Please avoid using <em> in the descriptions, see the instructions.
(In reply to Markus Keller from comment #9) > Please avoid using <em> in the descriptions, see the instructions. Created Bug 508931 to avoid this more or less automatically.
(In reply to Markus Keller from comment #9) > (In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #8) > > Added to N&N: > > Please avoid using <em> in the descriptions, see the instructions. With http://git.eclipse.org/c/gerrit/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git/commit/?id=37c81657e33e246615072474bc2d0d26e24c59be , the entry in N&N was removed. It's really a pity because some downstream projects such as TM4E have been waiting for this to be announced before making such change. As a result, those projects have delayed some interesting and valuable development. Gerrit is also available for N&N. Using it reduces the risk of removing very valuable content and to slow down our community, please use it.
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #11) > (In reply to Markus Keller from comment #9) > > (In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #8) > > > Added to N&N: > > > > Please avoid using <em> in the descriptions, see the instructions. > > With > http://git.eclipse.org/c/gerrit/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git/commit/ > ?id=37c81657e33e246615072474bc2d0d26e24c59be , the entry in N&N was removed. Deleting N&N because of small formatting errors without notifying the author is very bad style and should be avoided. Markus already left the project and I have not seen such behaviour since then.
