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Geertjan Wielenga commented on NETBEANS-5087:
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This is what you say in your description: "It is just possible to change the 
mimetype for a whole filetype and that means global. But this is not the case 
here."

I've read it carefully. It is not true.

> Add functionality to change mimetype of an open file
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NETBEANS-5087
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5087
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ide - Code
>            Reporter: Christian Lenz
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: changing-mimetype.gif
>
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> It is quite common to see it in other IDEs to change the MimeType from a file 
> which is open. For example creating a txt file as a temp file to discuss APIs.
> That means you have not only JSON or XML but also comments and stuff which is 
> not supported in that file and make errors.
> But that doesn't matter, the created txt file is just a collection of all 
> information.
> So it must be possible to change the mimetype of a file which is currently 
> open to change the content/text to text/json. This is not possible in 
> NetBeans. It is just possible to change the mimetype for a whole filetype and 
> that means global. But this is not the case here.
> I created a plugin where I can read out the mimetype of a file and shows it 
> in the statusbar. I wanted to change the mimetype, but the mimeType file 
> property is just read only or is only changable when the file was created in 
> memory whie the MemoryFileSystem.
> I had a look into the code, at the end, NetBeans just take the extension and 
> looks into the mapping where it was mapped against. So we need a 
> functionality where we can change the mimetype temporarily.



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