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Bug 124415

Summary: "Open As" item on context menu when opening files
Product: utilities Reporter: johnsonlau <johnsonlau>
Component: Open FileAssignee: Jaroslav Havlin <jhavlin>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P1    
Version: 7.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description johnsonlau 2007-12-24 13:58:12 UTC
Could NetBeans provide a menu item named "Open as" to allow user to choose the format to apply with?
Like Tapestry's .application definition can be open as a XML file and highlighted correctly.
Comment 1 Peter Pis 2008-09-16 13:46:16 UTC
Reassigning to utilities.
Comment 2 christianessl 2009-03-05 13:50:40 UTC
I have got a similar problem: I switched from Eclipse to NB because of scala - using the excellent scala plugin. And I 
realy like NB but I miss Eclipse's open as... command.

Some of my scala files contain a lot more xhtml+js than scala code, because I use scalas emebbeded xml feature, to have 
a staticly typed template-language. So I'd rather open those special scala files with the also excellent HTML-editor. 
To achieve this I currently have to change the mime/type but than I can not use the scala editor for the "code-files" 
anymore.

So an open as... like in eclipse would realy help. Maybe alternatively using the file-ending instead of the extension 
to associate a mime/type ie '.scala' is mapped to scala-files and '_view.scala' to text/html. However this does not 
work as well because the extension dialog does (not surpisingly) accept a dot.

Comment 3 egonpin 2013-06-12 16:28:45 UTC
In netbeans 7.3, this option is very important in mixed content as php javascript