On 12/12/2005, at 0:55, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
It's specifically about files without an extension. Though I attempt to give all files I create a good extension, some files just don't have one by default, like the "README" and "INSTALLATION" files you sometimes see in a freshly downloaded folder with source files. [...]
When a file is w/o extension TextMate (heuristically) scans to see if it's text, and if so, opens the file. So README and INSTALLATION should give you no problems.
Note that a missing file extension is not the only reason why TextMate does not want to open the file. For example, I downloaded Owen's file: [...]
Which is indeed missing a file extension and fails the “is this text”- test because at line 667 it contains a 0x08 character (bs) -- found using a regexp search for: [\x{00}-\x{1F}&&[^\s]].
I'll try to make it more liberal wrt allowing control characters in text.
[...] "file" give the same result for both files: "Bourne shell script text executable".
That's not based on the file extension.