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Bug 135222

Summary:	Improve support for editing files that do not belong to a project
Product:	ide	Reporter:	Tomasz Slota <tslota>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	Tomasz Slota <tslota>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker	CC:	agallardo, anebuzelsky, emononen, musilt2, pjiricka
Priority:	P1
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	135223, 132023, 134418
Bug Blocks:

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.