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Bug 135222 - Improve support for editing files that do not belong to a project
Summary: Improve support for editing files that do not belong to a project
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P1 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Tomasz Slota
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on: 135223 132023 134418
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-05-16 15:58 UTC by Tomasz Slota
Modified: 2012-05-25 15:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Tomasz Slota 2008-05-16 15:58:58 UTC
Currently (as of NB 6.1) it is possible to use the "File/OpenFile..." menu or the "Favorites" browser to open and edit files that do not belong to any project, 
however it is not terribly convenient and we are not providing many important IDE features when editing such files.

Now as we are supporting for more and more scripting languages where the concept of project is too heavyweight in many cases we should start treating this 
scenario as a first-class citizen.

This is an umbrella issue for more fine-grained enhancement and bugs that affect the user experience in this area.

See also http://wiki.netbeans.org/Preview.jsp?page=EditingFilesOutsideOfProject
Comment 1 Tomasz Slota 2008-05-16 16:25:24 UTC
The correct link to the wiki is http://wiki.netbeans.org/EditingFilesOutsideOfProject.