[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Content types with 'multiple' extensions

[emarcotte@xxxxxxxxx (Eugene Marcotte)]

Makes sense. 

Out of curiosity, since it is limited to extensions or whole filenames, 
then what is the point of supporting a "wildcard"? Could you just have a 
checkbox for each content type to say "extension" vs "full name." 

I don't want to sound too cynical but letting me type wildcards makes me 
want to actually have it match the wild cards :)

Oh well, I'll just add *.in and live with it for now :)

See ya and thanks for listening!
Eugene

Ed Merks wrote:

> Eugene,

> I think it's more working as designed.  I could have a file like a.b.c.d 
> so where exactly does the the file name end and the extension begin? I 
> think the typical/standard definition is that only the last segment 
> starting with "." is the extension.


> Eugene Marcotte wrote:
> > That sounds pretty logical. Do you think this qualifies as a bug or is 
> > that the desired approach?
> > Is there no way around it other than putting the full filename or the 
> > .in extension, which i was hoping to avoid since there are several 
> > other .in files that are not XML :)
> > Thanks for your quick reply!
> >
> > Eugene
> >
> > Ed Merks wrote:
> >
> > > Eugene,
> >
> > > My guess would be that the extension matcher just looks for the last 
> > > "." in the file name and for abc.jnlp.in would find ".in" which would 
> > > match only against "*.in".
> >
> >
> > > Eugene Marcotte wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I originally posted this in the webtools group, but they suggested I 
> > > > try here.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Ganymede, on Fedora Core 9, 64 bit.
> > > > I was just trying to edit a file using the XML editor, the file does 
> > > > not end .xml or any of the other xml content types that are listed 
> > > > by default. The dialog that came up told me to add the content type 
> > > > for this file, so I did. I added "*.jnlp.in" under xml and I also 
> > > > added *.jnlp while I was there.
> > > >
> > > > I went back to the file, and tried again. It still wouldn't open, 
> > > > same exact message comes up. If I rename the file to end with just 
> > > > .jnlp, it works fine and opens up in the XML editor. If I add 
> > > > Test.jnlp.in (the full name of the file) to the content types, tried 
> > > > again, and it opened right up. I just cannot have a 'complex' file 
> > > > extension it seems.
> > > >
> > > > So, I guess my question is: is there a way to get this to work? 
> > > > Alternatively, is there any way to simply turn off content type 
> > > > checking? I mean, does the XML editor really care what the extension 
> > > > of my file is so long as it can be parsed as XML? I don't mind 
> > > > having to go to a file and say "Open with XML editor" each time, if 
> > > > it will actually work.
> > > > Thanks a bunch,
> > > > Eugene