In Eclipse, how to open a file browser in the directory of the currently edited file

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levesque picture levesque · Mar 10, 2010 · Viewed 53.1k times · Source

I know it's possible in eclipse to open file browsers from your project's resource browser, but is it possible for files that aren't part of your project ? Typically external includes are not found in your resource browser...

If there is the equivalent of $(resource_loc) for the editor, it would work.. But I wasn't able to find it. Can anyone help me on this ?

Thanks!

EDIT : I Found StartExplorer, but it doesn't work for me. It is hardcoded to use WINDOWS explorer or cmd.exe. Also, it still requires you to use the resource browser. Other than that it can open paths selected in the editor, but they must be full paths.

EDIT 2 : StartExplorer seems to have been upgraded. I no longer use eclipse, but if someone else is still looking for this, I'd look again at their stuff!

Answer

Muhammad Annaqeeb picture Muhammad Annaqeeb · Oct 23, 2015

For eclipse Luna (4.4) and later, You can use: Right Click->Show In->System Explorer enter image description here

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