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| External editors</H1> |
| <P CLASS="Para" Label=Type>Sometimes you may need to use an external program to |
| edit a file in the Workbench. This can occur, for example, when the Workbench |
| has no editor for that file type.</P> |
| <P CLASS="Para" Label=Type>The external program will be used if that program is |
| registered as the system default editor for that file type and no other editor |
| is registered for that file type in the Workbench. For example, on most systems the default |
| "editor" for HTML files is a Web browser. If there is no other editor |
| associated with .htm and .html files in the Workbench, then opening an HTML file from the |
| Workbench would cause the file to be opened in a separate browser session.</P> |
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| Editors</a></P> |
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| <a href="../tasks/tasks-46.htm">Opening files for editing</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-51.htm">Associating editors with file types</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-52.htm">Editing files outside the Workbench</a></P> |
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