Wrong! - textmate

It declares which file types it can handle.

It is then the OS which assigns a default applications to the document types for which the user hasn’t made an explicit choice.

Generally though, I think the OS is smart enough to only use the document types from the new application, which the user did not already have an application for. But I don’t know exactly how it works, and it is outside my control.

So if the behavior is a problem, the proper place to complain would be to Apple, not giving me one star ratings on version tracker. But whatever floats your boat…

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Sunday, April 16 2006 @ 09:49 PM PDT

Too aggressive. Deleted. - jacobolus

It isn't TextMate's fault that it tells Launch Services it is able to handle many more types of files than the other editors on your machine. Send a bug report to Apple if you want TextEdit to pick up more filetypes in its info.plist.

To blame TextMate for simply announcing its ability to edit many types of files is absurd.

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Tuesday, May 02 2006 @ 03:05 AM PDT

Too dumb to use a 'puter... deleted. - lowellmbox-torrent

Note, too, that you can always select a file, use "Command-I" to show info and then expand the "Open with:" option to select the application to open that file... After changing the default app, you can, if you like, click on the button that says "use to open all files like this". I used to do that with PDF files (using just Acrobat Reader) till Preview improved enough to be a typically-better, Spotlight-integrated alternative... there's almost always a way to fix such behaviors to suit your preferences.

If you don't want to change the global preference, but just want to be able to open a file in another app, simply right-clicking (option-clicking) will give you the option to select another appropriate application. You can also just drag the file to the icon of the application (in the dock or a finder window.)

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Friday, May 12 2006 @ 05:35 AM PDT

Too aggressive. Deleted. - wgscott

I have the same experience. Make a text file and give it a non-canonical suffix. If TextMate is present, it will take over. If TextMate is absent, you get prompted by the OS to choose an application that you believe is appropriate.

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Monday, June 05 2006 @ 08:08 PM PDT

Too aggressive. Deleted. - jacobolus

Notice that this is because TextMate declares to the system that it is able to open all files. This is exactly what it's supposed to do. It's unsurprising that when the system finds a file extension for which only one application has announced support, it uses that application to open it.

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Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 11:18 AM PDT

Too aggressive. Deleted. - wgscott

I really like this editor. I gave it 5 stars. But this is a valid criticism. On a system that lacks textmate, if you navigate to a directory in your $PATH, and open that directory in the finder and double-click an executable, the executable runs (this even includes X11 executables if you have installed X11.app). This is the default system behavior. I never make use of it, but it is the default behavior.

Now install Textmate.

After installing textmate, textmate will attempt to open files in $PATH, even binary ones! So it changes the default behavior of the system.

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Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 03:41 PM PST

Too aggressive. Deleted. - LarryP

This is a legitimate complaint. It's only annoying that TextMate opens every document that you double-click on, because that can -- with effort -- be avoided. But it also opens documents which are downloaded which it has no business opening. No other application does this. It is not a system problem. It is a problem with TextMate, and very annoying. I want my system to work the way I ask it to, not the way TextMate thinks it should. Without TextMate, no problem; with TextMate, problem.

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Saturday, October 06 2007 @ 04:26 PM PDT