What happened to Eclipse Markdown editor in 2022-06?

Question

On Windows 10 I always install Eclipse by downloading and unzipping the Java EE version. The EE version has long had a Markdown editor for *.md files. Although it was a very limited editor, at least it gave me a brief preview and provided a some styling in the source editor (although it didn't understand the any complex subtleties of Markdown).

I just installed eclipse-jee-2022-06-R-win32-x86_64.zip for Eclipse 2022-06, and I when I clicked on a readme.md file it suddenly opened the file an external editor instead of opening it inside Eclipse.

OK, so maybe they decided that the built-in Markdown editor was too crummy to keep using. But the other problem is that the Markdown file type icon doesn't seem to have transparency correctly set. It shows a text document, but the background is black, which looks ugly (and startling) beside the other file icons.

What happened to Eclipse Markdown editor in 2022-06 and why is the Markdown icon messed up?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the various comments the editor was removed from the stuff included by default in the JEE package by mistake (by me 😞) Sorry for the inconvenience. Here is the step-by-step to add it to the 2022-06 release.

1. From the Help menu -> Install New Software...

2. In the Available Software UI's Work with combo box, choose --All Available Sites-- (You can also choose specifically 2022-06 - https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2022-06/)

3. Type wikitext in the filter box. The name is wikitext because that is the feature that contains editing support for many markup languages.

4. Check Mylyn WikiText and complete the wizard

5. Resume normal service editing Markdown files

Answer 2

That editor comes from the Mylyn Wikitext project. Mylyn was removed from the 2022-06 simultaneous release and most of the packages. You might be able to install it from http://download.eclipse.org/mylyn/releases/latest , but ymmv.