In Eclipse, can I use the Open With In-Place Editor by default?

Question

I need to spend a lot of time manipulating ridiculous amounts of Excel data and often find myself with a dozen or more Excel workbooks open in several different Excel instances, making it difficult to find the worksheet that I want at any given time.

I realized that I could mitigate this madness using Eclipse by opening both excel and CSV files with the In-Place editor.

However, I cannot figure out how to make the in-place editor the default editor. Any ideas?

(Alternatively, is there a way to add an explorer panel and tabs for Excel to give it similar functionality.)

Answer 1

You can go to Window-> Preferences-> Editors-> File Associations and associate the * .csv file with a text editor. Then set it as the default editor. Unfortunately, it seems that just clicking the csv file does not open. Selecting a file and pressing F3 work though.

Answer 2

In the Eclipse Documentation, you can find a hint on how to prevent OLE editors from being created in place (search “prevent” on the page), which is the exact opposite of what you wanted, right?

In all cases, you have the option "Allow built-in system editors" in Windows | Settings | General | Editors? If so, please enable it. I do not have much hope for this, because the option is apparently enabled by default, so you can already install it.

Answer 3

I have the same problem, I don’t know that it can help you, but try changing the encoding to UTF-8: Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> TextEditors -> Spelling. I change this and it works.