[Eric] Any way to disable launching of javascript in external editor?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all I would like to recommend an update of eric4 because your version 
> is very old.
>   
Sigh, yes.  Unfortunately that would mean breaking out of the 
platform-maintained package and having to maintain the entire 
compile-chain myself.  I won't even mention that at work on Debian-Etch 
I have to use Eric 3.x :) .  Gentoo (at home) at least gets me onto Eric 
4.2.0 :) .
> Your problem is caused by a wrong mimetypes configuration of your computer. It 
> doesn't return "text/javascript" or something similiar. 
>   
Apparently on Kubuntu Hardy the configuration is for 
application/x-javascript .  I configured it to be text/javascript with 
the result that I can now tell the shell (via Konquerer) to use Eric as 
the editor, but it opens in a separate Eric instance, not the one in 
which I'm browsing the project.
> However, you can define files with the extension *.js to be sources and 
> they'll be opened in the editor.
>   
That was the key.  The projectfromworking.py script I use to generate 
project files from bzr/git/svn/cvs working directories wasn't specifying 
the sourceExtensions for javascript, java or C++.  Sorry for the noise, 
everyone.

Take care,
Mike

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