Category: Plugin Directory / Tools / StartExplorer Plug-in
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Version: 0.3.0
Support Eclipse Version: 3.3
License: Free GPL
Development Status: Beta
Company: Bastian Krol
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Every now and then when working with Eclipse you'd like to examine a file or a folder inside the Eclipse workspace with your Windows Explorer. Or you edit a configuration file in an Eclipse editor which references another file in the filesystem and you wonder what's in that file or you would like to open it in a different application. This plug-in gives you a convenient way to do all this by adding a few entries to Eclipse's context menus. Furthermore, it offers a different (faster) way to issue any shell/dos command you like through customizable menu commands.
This plug-in offers a convenient integration of the Windows Explorer, the Windows command line, Windows default system applications and the clipboard into Eclipse. It adds a new submenu to Eclipse's standard context menus named StartExplorer in two places. The first one is the context menu for resource views like the Navigator, the Java Package Explorer and so on. The second on is added to the context menu for selected text regions in editor views.
In resource views like the Navigator or Package Explorer you can select files and folders. StartExplorer offers the following options here:
Show resource(s) in Windows Explorer
Start this (these) file(s) with system editor
Start cmd.exe here
Copy resource path to clipboard
Custom Commands
All options work with a single selected resource as well as with multiple resources. If multiple resources are selected and an option only works for files (or only for folders) all resources of the wrong type are ignored and the command is executed for the resources it is applicable for.
Show resource(s) in Windows Explorer: (Works for files and folders) Starts a Windows Explorer for the selected resource. If it is a folder, a Windows Explorer is opened for this folder. If it is a file, a Windows Explorer is opened for the parent folder of this file. If multiple resources are selected, a separate Windows Explorer instance is opened for each resource.
Start this (these) file(s) with system editor: (Works for files only) Opens the selected file in the Windows application that is associated with it's file type. If multiple resources are selected then for each resource the default application will be started separately.
Start cmd.exe here: (Works for folders only) Opens a command line prompt with the selected folder as it's starting directory. If multiple resources are selected, separate commmand line prompts are opened for each of them.
Copy resource path to clipboard: (Works for files and folders) Copies the absolute path of the selected resource to the clipboard. If multiple resources are selected, all resource paths are copied to the clipboard, separated by a comma (",").
Custom Commands: You can configure any command you like here. Use the preference page for this plug-in.
Context Menu Options for selected text regions
Start a Windows Explorer in this path
Start this file with system editor
Start cmd.exe in this path
Custom Commands
Basically these are the same options as for resources in Navigator/Package Explorer, except that the "Copy resource path to clipboard" option is missing here (another function to copy a selected text region to the clipboard wouldn't add that much value...).
The difference to the commands for resource is that these commands work based on the selected text region in an edior views. The plug-in interprets the selected text region as a filesystem path, denoting either a folder or a file. If this path denotes a folder, the plug-in can open a Windows Explorer for it or start a command line prompt for this folder. If the aforementioned path refers to a file rather than a directory, the plug-in can start the default Windows system application for it.
Actually, StartExplorer is a bit smarter when handling selected text regions than the last paragraph may give the impression. If you try to open a Windows Explorer for your selection it doesn't matter whether you selected a path denoting a folder or a file. If the selected text region points to a file, the parent directory of that file is shown in the Windows Explorer, just as you would expect. Furthermore, if the path ends with an incomplete path segment, the last segment is discarded. Example: In your text file (or XML file or whatever) you have the path C:pathtosomedirectoryfile.xyz. Now you select just C:pathtosomedire and start a Windows Explorer for that path. The plug-in recognizes that C:pathtosomedire is not a valid path and tries the parent directory C:pathtosome. If this is a valid, existing directory, a Windows Explorer pops up showing C:pathtosome. If you select "Start cmd.exe in this path" for C:pathtosomedirectoryfile.xyz then the directory C:pathtosomedirectory will be shown.
The custom commands are completely configurable through the preference page, just as for the resource-based commands.
Added on: 06-May-2008 | Updated: 27-Oct-2008
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Last 6 Comments
| User: Anonymous | Rating: 8 | 2009-12-03 09:58:39 | | | Nice plugin. I use eclipse waste quite a lot of time switching between eclipse and explorer window to use subversion client on the checked out projects. This saves most of that time.
One suggestion: It would be nice to have a short-cut to open the directory of "current" file in explorer with current file focused. For example, if I press Ctrl+Alt+E with my keyboard being in a file called HelloWorld.java in my eclipse's editor, the directory that contains HelloWorld.java should be opened and HelloeWorld.java should be pre-selected.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 9 | 2009-10-10 00:38:07 | | | Really good plug-in. Recommend to everyone.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 10 | 2008-10-11 14:22:23 | | | This plugin is nice,but there is some similar plugin such as easyexplore and Eclipse Explorer. Disappointedly all those plugin isn't support binding keyboard shortcuts.
It's will be more nice if support binding keyboard shortcuts.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 7 | 2008-08-19 01:13:04 | | | StartExplorer can use in eclipse-cpp-europa-fall-win32.zip(EasyExplorer can't.)
And it have more function like "start cmd" and "copy path".
Thankyou!
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 10 | 2008-06-11 17:22:52 | | | Very handy, indeed.
| | User: Anonymous | Rating: 9 | 2008-05-18 11:46:24 | | | Very cool!
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