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Making changes to Eclipse IDE [message #245820]

Thu, 17 January 2008 16:24

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: shreyasbforu.yahoo.com

Hello,

I am totally new to Eclipse Development platform.
I need to change some behavior of the Eclipse classic IDE. Where can I
find the source code for Eclipse IDE ? I checked out the repository branch
/cvsroot/eclipse. It is 4.1 GB in size !!! how can the source code of some
IDE be so big. Where in this repository if the code for the IDE ? I am
confused

Can anyone point me to some documentation about the layout of the
repository ?

What I need to do is something like : when you double click a file in the
eclipse perspectives, it should open in a prgram other than eclipse
editor. Say notepad editor. Since Eclipse is open source this should be
possible, right ?

Thanks in advace.
Shreyas

Re: Making changes to Eclipse IDE [message #245826 is a reply to message #245820]

Thu, 17 January 2008 16:45

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

Shreyas,

Doesn't "Open With" effectively already do that? Once you open the file
with a given editor of your choosing, the system remembers and will use
that editor again when you double click...

Shreyas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am totally new to Eclipse Development platform.
> I need to change some behavior of the Eclipse classic IDE. Where can I
> find the source code for Eclipse IDE ? I checked out the repository
> branch /cvsroot/eclipse. It is 4.1 GB in size !!! how can the source
> code of some IDE be so big. Where in this repository if the code for
> the IDE ? I am confused
>
> Can anyone point me to some documentation about the layout of the
> repository ?
> What I need to do is something like : when you double click a file in
> the eclipse perspectives, it should open in a prgram other than
> eclipse editor. Say notepad editor. Since Eclipse is open source this
> should be possible, right ?
>
> Thanks in advace.
> Shreyas
>

Re: Making changes to Eclipse IDE [message #245832 is a reply to message #245826]

Thu, 17 January 2008 16:52

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: shreyasbforu.yahoo.com

Hello Ed,

Thanks for a quick reply.
The thing which I asked for was just an example. Offcourse what you said
was right but my intention in asking was so that I could make some changes
in the way eclipse IDE works. I want to do development in eclipse IDE. How
should I go about it ?

Best regards.
Shreyas

Shreyas,

Doesn't "Open With" effectively already do that? Once you open the file
with a given editor of your choosing, the system remembers and will use
that editor again when you double click...

Shreyas wrote:

Hello,

I am totally new to Eclipse Development platform.
I need to change some behavior of the Eclipse classic IDE. Where can I
find the source code for Eclipse IDE ? I checked out the repository branch
/cvsroot/eclipse. It is 4.1 GB in size !!! how can the source code of some
IDE be so big. Where in this repository if the code for the IDE ? I am
confused

Can anyone point me to some documentation about the layout of the
repository ?
What I need to do is something like : when you double click a file in the
eclipse perspectives, it should open in a prgram other than eclipse
editor. Say notepad editor. Since Eclipse is open source this should be
possible, right ?

Thanks in advace.
Shreyas

Re: Making changes to Eclipse IDE [message #245836 is a reply to message #245832]

Thu, 17 January 2008 17:00

Eclipse User

According to the source code of the IDE. The /cvsroot/eclipse repository
contains much more (and much less :) ) then the source code for the
eclipse ide.

In eclipse everything is a plug-in. You can see the code of the plugin.
There isn`t a code IDE and source for this IDE.

The easiest way to see the source code for a plugin is using the
plug-ins view and import the plugins as source projects.

But more information on this can be found at
http://help.eclipse.org/help33/nav/2

Best Regards,
Kiril

Shreyas wrote:
> Hello Ed,
>
> Thanks for a quick reply.
> The thing which I asked for was just an example. Offcourse what you said
> was right but my intention in asking was so that I could make some
> changes in the way eclipse IDE works. I want to do development in
> eclipse IDE. How should I go about it ?
>
> Best regards.
> Shreyas
>
>
>
> Shreyas,
>
> Doesn't "Open With" effectively already do that? Once you open the file
> with a given editor of your choosing, the system remembers and will use
> that editor again when you double click...
>
>
> Shreyas wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am totally new to Eclipse Development platform.
> I need to change some behavior of the Eclipse classic IDE. Where can I
> find the source code for Eclipse IDE ? I checked out the repository
> branch /cvsroot/eclipse. It is 4.1 GB in size !!! how can the source
> code of some IDE be so big. Where in this repository if the code for the
> IDE ? I am confused
>
> Can anyone point me to some documentation about the layout of the
> repository ?
> What I need to do is something like : when you double click a file in
> the eclipse perspectives, it should open in a prgram other than eclipse
> editor. Say notepad editor. Since Eclipse is open source this should be
> possible, right ?
>
> Thanks in advace.
> Shreyas
>
>

Re: Making changes to Eclipse IDE [message #245906 is a reply to message #245836]

Fri, 18 January 2008 11:49

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: shreyasbforu.yahoo.com

Hey Kiril,

Thanks a lot. The documentation is vast. Hopefully I will find and read
what I am interested in.

Best regards.
Shreyas

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