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Christian Lenz commented on NETBEANS-5087:
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I didn't say where to do that. There is the thing with "Open file as" and this
is where you open a specific filetype with another mimetype.
You just change the filetype not the mimetype. It is not true to change the
mimetype of a file which will not affect all filetypes mapped to the mimetype.
What you change inside of the properties window is the extension is it is
written. If I do a right-click on a foo.java file and change the extension, it
is a foo.md file. It changes the filetype and again this is not the case. I
want to switch the mimetype of a specific file, not the extension. It affects
for example the VCS if I change the extension.
> Add functionality to change mimetype of an open file
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> 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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