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setting system editor on Linux [message #781075]

Fri, 20 January 2012 11:57

John Goche

Messages: 4
Registered: September 2011

Junior Member

Hello,

When I right click on an item I can open a file with the system editor.
Under Windows I could right click the desktop's file and set properties
and associate a file type to edit it with say gvim.

Now I am on Ubuntu Linux 11.10 and would like to set the default editor
to gvim rather than gedit. How can I accomplish this so that when I right
click on the file and open it with the system editor in eclipse I get gvim
instead of gedit?

Thanks,

John Goche

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Re: setting system editor on Linux [message #781567 is a reply to message #781075]

Sat, 21 January 2012 17:22

Russell Bateman

Messages: 3798
Registered: July 2009
Location: Provo, Utah, USA

Senior Member

On 2012.01.20 22:08, John Goche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I right click on an item I can open a file with the system editor.
> Under Windows I could right click the desktop's file and set properties
> and associate a file type to edit it with say gvim.
>
> Now I am on Ubuntu Linux 11.10 and would like to set the default editor
> to gvim rather than gedit. How can I accomplish this so that when I right
> click on the file and open it with the system editor in eclipse I get gvim
> instead of gedit?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Goche

Switch from Unity back to Gnome and conduct business as it was before
Ubuntu slid into silly?

(With apologies.)

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