The Solution
Customizing the list of filters isn't an obvious action, but nor is it difficult if you're comfortable with text editors (and Eclipse users certainly should be). There may be other ways, but this is what I did:
- Locate the directory of the Eclipse plugin being used for editing. This is usually something like eclipse/plugins/[plugin name]_[version]. I spend most of my time in Aptana, so my plugin directory is eclipse/plugins/com.aptana.ide.scripting_0.2.9.16696.
- Open the plugin.xml file in a text editor.
- Find the extension element whose point attribute has a value of org.eclipse.ui.ide.resourceFilters.
- Create a new filter element like any others that already exist, but containing the needed file pattern. If no extension element is found for resourceFilters, see below.
- Restart Eclipse using the -clean switch.
Being an Aptana user, I found that the plugin.xml file I had to edit didn't contain any resource filters so I just created one by adding the following code to the bottom of plugin.xml:
Summary: http://trailfire.com/enjoylife/trailview/63329
The Solution
Customizing the list of filters isn't an obvious action, but nor is it difficult if you're comfortable with text editors (and Eclipse users certainly should be). There may be other ways, but this is what I did:
- Locate the directory of the Eclipse plugin being used for editing. This is usually something like eclipse/plugins/[plugin name]_[version]. I spend most of my time in Aptana, so my plugin directory is eclipse/plugins/com.aptana.ide.scripting_0.2.9.16696.
- Open the plugin.xml file in a text editor.
- Find the extension element whose point attribute has a value of org.eclipse.ui.ide.resourceFilters.
- Create a new filter element like any others that already exist, but containing the needed file pattern. If no extension element is found for resourceFilters, see below.
- Restart Eclipse using the -clean switch.
Being an Aptana user, I found that the plugin.xml file I had to edit didn't contain any resource filters so I just created one by adding the following code to the bottom of plugin.xml:
