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Open With and images

Some files open in an editor other than the text editor: images open in the image viewer, and plugins can add editors of their own, such as for diagrams. Open With chooses the editor for one file, and Set Default Editor chooses it for every file of that kind.

Open a file in another editor​

  1. Right-click the file in the Explorer or in the editor and choose Open With..., or run File › Open With... for the file of the active tab.
  2. Pick an editor. The list shows the text editor and every editor that can open the file; the default one says so, and the one the file is open in says Open.

The file opens in the editor you picked, in place of its tab in the other editor. A file is open in one editor at a time. When the other editor has unsaved changes, Runesmith asks first.

A file that looks binary, such as an image, opens read-only in the text editor, each byte shown as one character.

Change the default editor​

Choose Set Default Editor for *.png... at the end of the Open With list, or run Set Default Editor... from the command palette, and pick the editor. Runesmith keeps the choice for every file with that extension, or for every file with that name when it has no extension, in editor-associations.json in your settings folder. Delete a line of that file to go back to the usual default.

Without a choice of yours, a file opens in a plugin's editor made for it, else in Runesmith's own, else in the text editor.

The image viewer​

PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, BMP and ICO files open in the image viewer. It shows the image on a checkerboard where it is transparent, and its format, size in pixels and file size above it. A GIF shows its first frame.

ActionMouseKeys
Zoom in or out at the pointerWheel+ and -, at the center
Fit the image in the tabFit0
Show the image at its actual size1:11
Switch between fitted and actual sizeDouble-click
Move a zoomed imageDrag

A fitted image is never shown larger than its actual size, and it follows the tab's size. Pixels show as sharp squares from 200% up. When the file changes on disk, the viewer shows the new version.

Saving and other commands​

Save, Undo, Redo and Close Editor work on the active tab, whatever its editor. File › Revert File reads the file from disk again and drops unsaved changes. Files open in other editors come back in them when you open the folder again.