How to write an editor that shows the content of a folder in eclipse?

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Published on 2010-04-09T19:21:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 19:23 UTC
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Motivation

I have written an eclipse plugin that shows me a list of all files and folders with unreviewed content. When selecting a folder, I want an editor to open showing all files and subfolders that this folder contains. It has to work for versioned items, too. So I have to create the content of the editor within my plugin (no backing IResource).

What I currently have

Right now I'm opening a RemoteFileEditorInput for a versioned file (subclipse) or I'm using IWorkbenchPage.openEditor() for a FileEditorInput.

Question

What's an easy way to visualize dynamic content (directory listing) inside of an text editor?

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