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Industrial
Industrial

Reputation: 42778

Eclipse IDE: Add/change default filetypes?

When I create a new file in Eclipse, there's a wide selection of different alternatives appearing in Eclipse.

However I am missing a couple of file which I need to open the "file create wizard" to create - JS files included.

How can I add my own file types as a default choice to appear in the "new files" menu?

Screenshot of the menu I am referring to: alt text

Upvotes: 13

Views: 3237

Answers (2)

lacodajeff
lacodajeff

Reputation: 173

Yes, from the Eclipse's toolbar, right click > Customize perspective... > Menu Visibility > File > New > check and uncheck file types.

Upvotes: 7

Industrial
Industrial

Reputation: 42778

Puuh - just when I had given up I accidentally found this:

Try this: Right click on Eclipse's toolbar and choose "Customize this perspective" option. You will see a dialog box, and on "Shortcuts" tab choose "New" from "Submenus:" droplist.

Find "PHP" in the left pane and check the checkbox next to it. It will enable both "PHP File" and "PHP Project" in "New" menu of your perspective. You can do the same to other file editors as well. (HTML, CSS,....

http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.pdt/msg00228.html

Upvotes: 23

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