On Windows 10 I always install Eclipse by downloading and unzipping the Java EE version. The EE version has long had a Markdown editor for *.md
files. Although it was a very limited editor, at least it gave me a brief preview and provided a some styling in the source editor (although it didn't understand the any complex subtleties of Markdown).
I just installed eclipse-jee-2022-06-R-win32-x86_64.zip
for Eclipse 2022-06, and I when I clicked on a readme.md
file it suddenly opened the file an external editor instead of opening it inside Eclipse.
OK, so maybe they decided that the built-in Markdown editor was too crummy to keep using. But the other problem is that the Markdown file type icon doesn't seem to have transparency correctly set. It shows a text document, but the background is black, which looks ugly (and startling) beside the other file icons.
What happened to Eclipse Markdown editor in 2022-06 and why is the Markdown icon messed up?
CodePudding user response:
As mentioned in the various comments the editor was removed from the stuff included by default in the JEE package by mistake (by me