On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:52 AM, David Pratt wrote:
Hi. On my mac most files that I co from svn have no creator
associated with them. .txt files show as BBEdit but my .py and many
others files do not. The trouble this causes is that search/replace
over multiple folders does not seem to work (they will be skipped
without a creator). Has anyone a recommendation to ensure these
files are picked up with the search/replace. I have been using a
droplet up to now to change creator types on files before searching
which is a pain. I am currently using v 7 of BBEdit.
It is the *type*, not the creator which is important here. (The
creator is the code for the application which created the file, the
type is the kind of file it is. Files checked out from subversion
will have neither.)
There are a couple options which control this behavior:
- "Options..." in the Find dialog will let you search "Text files
only" or "All file types"
- in "Text Files: Opening" in the prefs there is a set of choices for
what to do when the files type is unknown.
My recommendation is to leave both of those at their factory default
settings ("Text Files only" and "Map the File Name" respectively) so
that you don't inadvertently search and replace in non-text files
(which could have catastrophic consequences in the replace case.)
If all of the files have well known extensions, like .py, just add a
mapping for that extension in the language preferences and BBEdit
will consider it to be a text file.
Jim
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