On Sep 19, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
So you really should only have to do this only once for every file type.
"Every file type" is the problem. RCDefaultApp reports that there are about *50* different extensions associated with BBEdit and XCode. I don't want to go through and manually change every one of those mappings. And what happens if I install yet another editor or, say, a new version of BBEdit? I'll have to go back and change all those associations *again*. Surely there's an easier way? I guess I could always resort to writing some AppleScript, assuming that would work...
I suppose I'm also asking the broader question of why apps like TextMate/BBEdit/etc. have to associate themselves with anything to begin with. For example, when I install two C++ editors, they fight for the .cc association, and I guess whichever one is installed last wins. Seems like a rather weak way of managing file associations.
Trevor