[TxMt] Re: how can I make TextMate the default editor for text files on 10.5.6

[Jay Levitt]

I found the author of RCDefaultApp to be *very* helpful and informative... 
maybe send him an e-mail describing your problem?

Bill Paxton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the pointer to that thread. 
> 
> Turns out I had found RCdefaultApp independently.
> And even after setting everything I could find to "TextMate",
> I'm still having the problem.  Even the UTI public.data
> setting and application/octet-stream setting are now
> for TextMate, but double-clicks go elsewhere.  Where
> they go seems to change -- before it was TeXShop,
> but now after a restart they are going to GraphicConverter!
> 
> --Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Joseph Pecoraro wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
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