But can it really be impossible to make double click work correctly?
But it is hard to believe that Apple has failed to provide a way to direct double clicks to the desired application for new files without extensions.
It seems like somebody got this to work in October 2008 (on Leopard). http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=79991
He used an application RCdefaultApp to change the public.data UTI to be TextMate instead of TextEdit.
Quote: "A few hours later, after reading up on UTIs, I looked through the list of public.* utis in RCdefaultApp and I found the UTI public.data was set to textedit-- i set it to textmate, and all my extensionless text files seem to open properly now."
Here is a link to RCdefaultApp: http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
Let me know how it works out.
- Joe