On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
I've installed TextMate, BBEdit, and XCode, and I seem to be caught in the crossfire of a file association war. Example: TextMate wants to be the editor for Fortran 90 files (.f90), but BBEdit wants to be the editor for Fortran 77 (.f77) files, and XCode wants to be the editor for plain old Fortran (.for) files. Does that make sense to anyone?
What I'd like to do is remove all of BBEdit's and XCode's associations, thus leaving TextMate as the editor for just about everything (because it's set up to open unassociated files). Is there an easy way to do that? I know of a program called RCDefaultApp that can show the associations for a given app, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do a "bulk unassociation," just one by one. Is there a better way?
Why don't you open the Finder, and navigate to one of the f77 files. Then press cmd-I to bring up the info panel. Then, in the Open With option, select TextMate, and then click the button right below called "Change All". Do the same for one of the .for files. That should fix all f70 and for files. So you really should only have to do this only once for every file type.
Trevor
Haris