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

[Mathieu Godart]

Funny, I was trying to get rid of TextEdit when double clicking on a  
extension-less file (using the compress TextEdit, then compress  
OpenOffice, etc. technique), when I finally got to the same issue:

	The document "newfile" could not be opened.
	Help Viewer cannot open files of this type.

Argh!

This is really useful for makefiles...

Best regards,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Godart

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ASIC Integration Manager
Coolsand Technologies
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Le 5 avr. 09 à 17:40, Bill Paxton a écrit :

>
> On Apr 5, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> The more I read this, the more it is becoming massively clear, this  
>> is
>> not a textmate issue at all.  You are on 10.5.6, which is known to
>> work, for what appears to be the better majority of users.
>
> So, just to confirm, you have no problem with double clicking
> extensionless files and getting them the open with tm?  If so,
> that's encouraging at least.
>
>> You have something strange going on with your system.
>
> Amen to that!    BTW: I just moved from 10.4 where all this worked
> fine to 10.5 where things have been bad from the beginning.
>
>
>> While there is
>> a chance TM is making it more apparent, file opening, either by drag
>> and drop or double click etc, are easily controlled by Mac OS X.
>>
>> Curious what happens if you select a file and press command-O on the
>> keyboard,
>
> same result as double click.  opens in wrong app.
>
>> or command-downarrow.
>
> ditto.
>
>> At this point, I suggest you crete a new user account in OS X, login
>> to that account, and see if that solves it.
>
> Good idea.
>
> New user account -- but same machine, so same Applications folder.
>
> Here's what I did to check things.
>
> Open TM.  Create a new file using Save as.  Quit TM.
>
> Double click the new file.  Get this error:
>
> 	The document "newfile" could not be opened.
> 	Help Viewer cannot open files of this type.
>
> I removed TM from Applications, download a new copy, put that
> in Applications, tried again, and got the same error.
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
> P.S. Thanks to John Laudun for expressing sympathy!
>
>
>
>
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