Open with System Editor

Abuses the Custom Editor API to associate filetypes of your choice with the default program defined by your OS.

With respect to sandcastle's Open, which I borrowed the file-opening code from.

Why use this?

To my knowledge, all the other extensions like this are adding commands or context menu items. Because this one pretends to be a custom editor, you can set it as the primary handler of a filetype, meaning all you have to do from then on is click the file and it'll open in the external editor.

Features

From the Explorer view, right-click a file, Open With..., System Editor.

From that Open With dialog, you can also click "Configure default editor for ___" to always open files with the system editor.

Or edit the setting manually in your settings.json or the UI:

"workbench.editorAssociations": {
    ...
    "*.docx": "open-with-system"
},

TODO: Record GIFs

Known Issues

This took me like an hour to make, there's probably something.

Only tested on Windows.

Release Notes

0.1.0

Initial release!