<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Allan Odgaard wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:A3A9355C-763B-43B4-8769-4E2269B74054@macromates.com" type="cite">There is nothing there to indicate, that the file is what you refer to as binary. TextMate uses a heuristic where it scans the first 4 KB or similar, and if it looks like text, it is treated as text. But if you do not use extensions, you can’t expect programs to figure out what the type of the file is. </blockquote> I'm not asking the application to determine it, just a way to manually tell the app "this particular file is binary". As opposed to "all files with this extension are binary". (Although I should note that whatever heuristic Perl uses to determine whether a file is text or binary seems to work in the huge majority of cases, so it's at least possible for the app to make an educated guess.) <blockquote cite="mid:A3A9355C-763B-43B4-8769-4E2269B74054@macromates.com" type="cite">You can however use double-extensions, like ‘file.real-type.txt’ and then update the language grammar of real-type to claim the ‘real-type.txt’ extension. </blockquote> Alas, I can't go back and change years worth of file names. Again, this is where I'd like a feature to say "this PARTICULAR file is such-and-such" without saying "any file with this extension is such-and-such". Or even a way to say "treat this particular file as a different type for the duration of this session, but DON'T change the type associated with the extension". I don't care if the temporary association to an individual file is preserved across sessions. <blockquote cite="mid:A3A9355C-763B-43B4-8769-4E2269B74054@macromates.com" type="cite">The grammars have a ‘firstLineMatch’ regexp to look for shebang and similar. </blockquote> Ah, I didn't know that! Is that a new behavior, or just something I've missed seeing? Is there any way to extend it to a multiline match so it could find something like an emacs modeline or vim config line elsewhere in the file? (The vim guys like to put it at the end of the file.) <div class="moz-signature">-- <address style="font-family: sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-size: smaller;"> Steve King Sr. Software Engineer Arbor Networks +1 734 821 1461 <a href="http://www.arbornetworks.com/">www.arbornetworks.com</a> </address> </div> </body> </html>