SVN File Editors

Each type of file is associated with a type of editor which opens the files of that type for editing. The editor can be the built-in one specially provided for the file type (for example the internal XML editor, the internal XSLT editor, the internal XSL-FO editor, etc) or an external application installed on the computer, either the default system application associated with that file type in the operating system or other particular application specified by the path to its executable file. The list of all the associations file type - editor is displayed in the preferences panel SVN File Editors which is opened from menu Options > Preferences > SVN File Editors .

The SVN File Editors Preferences Panel

The Edit button or a double click on a table row opens a dialog for specifying the editor associated with the file type. The same dialog is displayed on opening a file from one of the Syncro SVN Client views.

The Open With Dialog

In this dialog are offered three options for opening a file:

If a file type is associated with an internal editor other than an XML editor type then the encoding set in the preference Encoding for non XML files is used for opening and saving a file of that type. This is necessary because in case of XML files the encoding is usually declared at the beginning of the XML file in a special declaration or it assumes the default value UTF-8 but in case of non XML files there is no standard mechanism for declaring the encoding of the file.