Usage of Generic editor and org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor.hyperlinkDetectors

[vogella]

Is there a way to restrict a hyperlinkDetector (defined for the generic editor) to a certain content type.

For example I have:

<hyperlinkDetector
          activate="true"
          class="com.vogella.ide.editor.asciidoc.IncludeHyperlinkDetector"
          id="com.vogella.ide.editor.asciidoc.hyperlinkDetector"
          name="Hyperlink for include statements in Asciidoc files"
          targetId="org.eclipse.ui.genericeditor.GenericEditor">
    </hyperlinkDetector>

But unfortunately this will be used for every generic editor (and maybe causing problems for unknown text files handled by the generic editor).

Is their a way to restrict a hyperlinkDetector to a content-type? Or how are we supposed to restrict the hyperlink handling?

[mickaelistria]

Looking at HyperlinkDetectorRegistry, there seems to be no way to filter out a particular hyperlinkDetector for a particular editor. There are preferences that can be used to tweak things, but as long as there is no per-editor preference scope, it won't fit the desired grain here.
The HyperlinkDetectors are supposed to implement themselves (thanks to setContext or just by using the viewer) a strategy to turn no-op when they're irrelevant.
I imagine that an enableWhen child element on the extension point would be the most helpful approach.

[vogella]

Thanks @mickaelistria .

That might also the reason why hyperlinking shows frequently up in the freeze monitor, if it's easy to restrict them they will always be triggered.