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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook editor
This is all useful information, thanks. I use a Mac, not Windows, so I start Eclipse and then open the file I want to edit. Every time I need to use a Windows machine, I end up using words my mother would yell at me for. I know I had to set an Eclipse workspace when I installed it, but I've ignored it ever since. I still think Eclipse is great compared to the alternatives (at least those available to me with my system constraints). Emacs is a close second, but the outline feature in Eclipse makes it better for me. On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Warren Young wrote: > Lou Iorio wrote: >> Go to Preferences->Editors->File Associations and add *.dbk. with >> the same associated editors as *.xml. >> I think there's one more Preferences setting to deal with, but I >> don't remember what it is. > > Thanks. You also have to go into the Content Types area and tell > it that *.dbx is an XML file. While there are many kinds of XML > that Eclipse understands and so has special modes, it's another > black mark in my book against it that it doesn't default to generic > XML for the content type. > > Anyway, having done that, it's only a partial solution. If you > then use Windows file associations (unrelated to Eclipse file > associations) to associate *.dbx with eclipse.exe, the file doesn't > open in Eclipse. When you double-click a .dbx file, Eclipse opens, > and then it takes you to the last project you had open; the .dbx > file doesn't ever open. I tried closing the project, closing > Eclipse, and then double-clicking the .dbx file again, but it still > reopened the last project. > > This is part of what I referred to with my comment about workspace > tunnel vision. Eclipse doesn't cope well with things outside its > workspace. > >>> That, coupled with Eclipse's tunnel vision regarding workspaces, >>> I don't think I could recommend it as a general-purpose DocBook >>> editor. >> I don't use or understand workspaces or projects in Eclipse: I >> just use it to edit individual files. > > Maybe all this doesn't happen if you never start using workspaces > and projects to begin with. But regardless, it's still keeping > Eclipse from being "great". > > There's a lot to like about Eclipse. I already use it in two > separate contexts from DocBook, but it has a lot of sharp edges > still, especially in areas like this, which are outside its > original scope as a Java development platform. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis- > open.org >
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