I want to edit SVG files in Eclipse. I don't know why it doesn't work, but Eclipse opens Sublime when I double click an SVG file. I tried to install the Docfacto plugin, but Eclipse stalls when I open or create an SVG file.
I remember that elsewhere it has worked. I don't need a graphical editor, just something compareble to XML or HTML, so with color coding and maybe matching tags.
How can I open and edit SVG files in Eclipse?
Go to Window->Preferences
Select General->Editors->File Associations
Look for *.svg in the top list.
You should be able to modify the default editor(s) in the bottom pane. Mine is set to "XML Editor".
It can be a little tricky if you don't know:
first define svg as an xml content type:
Preferences > General > Content Types
Select XML in the upper right box
Click the Add... button next to the bottom right box
Add *.svg and click OK
Then do what #Paul LeBeau proposed:
Preferences > General > Editors > File Associations
Select *.svg or add it if it is not yet in the list
Mark XML Editor as default in the bottom box
Apply and Close
Finally open a fresh svg file to test the default file association, if you open the same file as before eclipse will remember the previous (text) editor and you will see no syntax colouring. Or right click on a file and choose Open With > XML Editor to test if the colour coding works.
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I clicked something or accidentally drug a file that was open in the editor and now it is no longer displayed.
If I double click on the file in Package Explorer it doesn't show in the editor like it used to. I have looked all over and can't figure out how to get this file back in the editor.
I thought clicking File - Open File would do it but that displays an open file dialog.
Another way to simulate this is to put the cursor in the editor for an open file and select File - Close. This closes the file but then if you double click on the file in the Package Explorer it doesn't open it in the editor anymore. How do I get these files to display in the editor again?
I also tried right clicking on the file and selecting "Open". This does not display in editor either.
I also tried right clicking and selecting "Open With Java Editor". This does not work either.
If I clicke "File" and then the name of the file in the MRU list . This does not work either.
Also, double clicking a file in Package Explorer fails to open any file. The file shows in the File MRU list but does not display in editor. Can not figure this out.
Also, if I select "Back to" or "Forward to" arrows on toolbar, it tracks the file in the Package Explorer by highlighting it but the file does not display in an editor like it used to.
Also, I have tried "File Open" browsing to the physical location and selecting it but that does not display in the editor either.
I had to open a new window (Window - New Window) and then Reset Perspective (Window - Reset Perspective) to get the editor back. Not sure why but I lost some of my perspective settings doing this.
In Package Explorer, instead of double-clicking on the file, try to right-click it and you should get several "Open with..." options; choose the one that matches the editor in which you want the file to open.
Your choice will also be saved as the default, so the next times you can just double-click and it will open in that same editor.
If you are customizing the perspective, then saving perspective could be a safer option to avoid such glitches.
PFB the link on how to save a perspective:
http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2FgettingStarted%2Fqs-43e.htm
I am developing some help documentation in a Java project in Eclipse. In the resources folder there are my HTML pages and a couple of GIF and PNG images that will be displayed inside the HTML.
Now for my convenience I want to preview the images in the file structure of the project, to see what they show and which one to include in the HTML page. If I double-click an image, the default action that Eclipse does is: it opens it in Internet Explorer. Since I don't like IE, I want to change this default action. What I would prefer actually is that it opens some image viewer of some kind inside Eclipse.
I know this is a matter of file associations. However I was not able to get it working.
What I tried to do so far:
As an example I did it for *.gif.
I went to Preferences -> General -> Editors -> File Associations. There I pressed "Add..." and added *.gif.
Then I pressed "Add..." at the Associated Editors section and added an external gif viewer:
I expected this to open the default image viewing program from my Windows system, but for some reason it still opens it in Internet Explorer.
So what can I do to change this? Does Eclipse have an internal image viewer of some kind?
Why not just install plugin for viewing images
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/quickimage -> http://psnet.nu/c/quickimage
Sources https://github.com/persal/quickimage
There was nothing wrong with Eclipse, and the described solution is fine.
In fact the problem was with the Windows system. The system's default file association with images was the Internet Explorer. Changing that solved the problem.
right click on the file -> open With.. and then select -> System Editor (it should remain selected as a checkbox does)
After that you should be able to double click on a file and open it with the right app.
My environment is eclipse indigo build 1857 on gentoo linux
EDIT:
When you associate some external software with an extension, you should see on the menu "open With.." all application associated with the extension(On the top).
Then you can see : Text Editor - System Editor - Default Editor - Other...
Text Editor: open your file with the text editor
System Editor: open your file with the app associated with extension in the operating system
Default Editor: open your file with the (default) app associated by you under Preferences ->General -> EDitor -> File Associaton etc...
You should have something like this picture, without "In-Place Editor" option
Eclipse Oxygen (4.7)
Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) added the following feature - Images are opened in the Eclipse IDE.
You just need to double click the file name in the Package Explorer.
The file URI looks like this file:/// + absolute path:
Now there is a bug related to the URI shown on the right side.
If you rename the file, it won't be updated without reopening the file.
Is there a way to open the Sublime Text Editor into Eclipse to edit HTML, JavaScript and CSS?
The idea is to use only the Text Editor without project explorer.
If this isn't possible, is there a plugin that does what I said?
I would have just left this as a comment but I can't. First off, why is using the project explorer a problem?
Next, I know with Sublime Text 2 & 3 you have the ability to view/edit a file in two places simultaneously, just go File > New View into File. In Eclipse you can go Window > New Window. Alternatively you can import a project/file into eclipse or sublime. Either of these will bring in the project explorer (unless you import one file or something).
You might want to have a look at Subclim + Eclim.
I had to open the files via "Project Explorer -> Open With -> External -> sublime" to get the files refreshed right away (e.g. for a running webapp). But other from that, it's quite nice.
Eclipse Juno keeps opening my HTML files in a embedded web-browser, rather than in an embedded syntax-highlighting editor.
I have installed:
Web Page Editor
Eclipse Web Developer Tools
PyDev for Eclipse
Specifically see the screenshot of my install applications.
I need it to work with Django templates + any other Python templates with HTML + normal HTML+JS files.
How do I find this editor, and select it as default?
Select Window -> Preferences from the main Eclipse menu.
Select General -> Editors -> File Associations from the Preferences menu.
For .htm and .html, left click on the extension in the upper view. Left click on the Add button to the right of the lower view to add one or more HTML editors. Left click on your favorite HTML editor and left click on the Default button to make it the default editor.
If the extension you want is missing, left click on the Add button to the right of the upper view to add the extension.
If you want to add an HTML editor to Eclipse:
Go to Help -> Install New Software
Choose the site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/your_eclipse_version
Type the filter text Web Page Editor
There should be one result. Check off the box and press the Finish button.
Now you should have the option to choose the HTML editor when opening files by right-clicking, Open With -> HTML Editor.
If you want to always use the HTML editor to open HTML files then go to the Eclipse preferences -> General -> Editors -> File Associations. Select the extension up top (e.g. *.htm, *.html) then select the HTML editor in the bottom pane and press the Default button.
I had a similar problem.
Once I installed the html editor (thanks to CgodLEY), still my html files wouldnt show up with that editor.
Solution? Right click on the html/htm file, go to "open with" and select "HTML editor". Fortunately that solve everything...
For those still finding their way here, yes, do add an HTML editor to Eclipse as CgodLEY suggests, if you're having this problem. However, even if you already have an HTML editor in your Eclipse installation, consider installing CodeMix for a superlative HTML editing experience - take a look at the differences here.
Now, there's a Django-aware template editor available for free:
http://eclipse.kacprzak.org/
I installed it in Eclipse Kepler / Django 1.6, it's working fine for me.
Note: if you previously opened a specific .HTML file with some other editor, you need to go back to the project view, right click on the .HTML file, select 'open with...' and explicitly select Django editor.
To answer the opening of your question: Note that Eclipse will use the built-in web-browser to view html files if you are opening them outside of a project, as in "File->Open File ...", when that file isn't part of a project.
I just created a dummy project, and now the html files are correctly opened with the editor selected in my preferences. Success!
Nothing worked and I had begun getting an unrelated error on startup with a troubleshooting step requiring reinstall.
This time I downloaded Eclipse for Mobile Developers, and since then I have added my other packages and it's all working fine =).
None of the editors work the way I want them to though, however I have ended up with Django-Editor (which is slightly better than Aptana's one).
I'm using the HTML editor resp. the Structured Text Editor in Eclipse. It always opens in the tab Visual/Source:
Is it possible to tell Eclipse it should always open this editor in the Source tab?
You seem to use a plugin which associates with HTML files. For example Eclipse normally loads XML files for the first time with Design tab, and once you switch to source tab, it remembers the next time to open any document associated with XML Editor in Source tab. I don't know remembering is up to Eclipse or up to the plugin associated with the file, but a quick workaround would be:
to right click on the HTML file in package explorer > Open With > choose another editor (e.g. text editor). This only associates with current file. If you want to change file association for all HTMLs:
goto Preferences (under menu Window) > General > Editor > File Associations and change HTML file association there.
In Eclipse goto Windows-->Preferences-->Type Editors change the associated editors for File Types after that click on OK
You didn't say what version of Eclipse you're using. My HTML / Structured Text editors didn't have the tabs the same as yours. I'm using 3.4.2.
You can extend that editor by writing your own plug-in for Eclipse. Outside of the 'create a plug-in project' stuff, start by finding the extension points for the target editor. Then your plug-in can just register as an extension and add a new property instead of writing a whole editor. The property should show up on a preference page and then your code can take care of switching the active view of the editor to the 'Source' tab based on that property.
Right click the file and then "open with" and open it in another HTML or texteditor.
And then map this editor as the default editor for this filetype by right clicking the document and setting the file extension.
I always do this to get rid of the memory greedy WYSIWYG editors.