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### 5.7 Contextual Menus for Editing Files

Whenever you ask for a contextual menu (using e.g. the third button on your mouse) on a source file, you will get access to a number of entries, displayed or not depending on the current context.

Menu entries include the following categories:

Source Navigation
  See Contextual Menus for Source Navigation.
Dependencies
  See Dependency Browser.
Entity browsing
  See Entity Browser.
Project view
  See The Project View.
Version control
  See The Version Control Contextual Menu.
Debugger
  See Using the Source Editor when Debugging.
Case exceptions
  See Handling of case exceptions.
Refactoring
  See Refactoring.

In addition, an entry `Properties...` is always visible in this contextual menu. When you select it, a dialog pops up that allows you to override the language used for the file, or the character set.

This can be used for instance if you want to open a file that does not belong to the current project, but where you want to benefit from the syntax highlighting that GPS knows how to.

It is not recommended to override the language for source files that belong to the project. Instead, you should use the `Project Properties` dialog and change the naming scheme if appropriate. This will ensure better consistency between GPS and the compiler in the way they manipulate the file.