What happened to Eclipse Markdown editor in 2022-06?

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On Windows 10 I always install Eclipse by downloading and unzipping the Java EE version. The EE version has long had a Markdown editor for *.md files. Although it was a very limited editor, at least it gave me a brief preview and provided a some styling in the source editor (although it didn't understand the any complex subtleties of Markdown).

I just installed eclipse-jee-2022-06-R-win32-x86_64.zip for Eclipse 2022-06, and I when I clicked on a readme.md file it suddenly opened the file an external editor instead of opening it inside Eclipse.

OK, so maybe they decided that the built-in Markdown editor was too crummy to keep using. But the other problem is that the Markdown file type icon doesn't seem to have transparency correctly set. It shows a text document, but the background is black, which looks ugly (and startling) beside the other file icons.

What happened to Eclipse Markdown editor in 2022-06 and why is the Markdown icon messed up?

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As mentioned in the various comments the editor was removed from the stuff included by default in the JEE package by mistake (by me ) Sorry for the inconvenience. Here is the step-by-step to add it to the 2022-06 release.

  1. From the Help menu -> Install New Software...

help menu screenshot

  1. In the Available Software UI's Work with combo box, choose --All Available Sites-- (You can also choose specifically 2022-06 - https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2022-06/)

choose all available sites

  1. Type wikitext in the filter box. The name is wikitext because that is the feature that contains editing support for many markup languages.

wikitext typed into filter box

  1. Check Mylyn WikiText and complete the wizard

wikitext selected

  1. Resume normal service editing Markdown files

screenshot of eclipse

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