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Since upgrading to Leopard, I've had one very annoying problem. I cannot get textmate to open a file when it has no extension and has not been explicitly set to be opened by textmate yet. I've read the blog on Leopard issues, and while this is similar to the quickview issue, I think this is a new perspective.
In particular, I work with a lot of svn or svk checkouts, set up as a project in the drawer. One of the filenames of a most important part of the project is amavisd-maia. no extension, as is common for a lot of unix programs. It's actually a perl file, but textmate (OSX probably, but textmate follows the suggestion) insists on calling it an executable and running it. Worse, it does so silently with no user feedback at all... it took me forever to find out that it was executing it without a terminal.
The only way to make it work is to open the info view in finder, and change the program to open it with, but it only works on the one file. If I wipe the project and check out a new copy, it does the wrong thing again. As near as I can tell, there is no way to tell OSX how to treat no-extension files.
I understand you want textmate to do the right thing when opening an image or something, but why can't there be a setting to force something to open in the editor? An option in the right click menu, "open in editor"? A modifier when clicking?
David Morton Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com mortonda@dgrmm.net