I have noticed that BBEdit 9 still refers to what is now an unsupported product: Super Get Info.
I still use Super Get Info for a handful of chores, and I think it is a good tool for when you don't want to bother typing lots of characters in Terminal to do the same job! Unfortunately, yet understandably, Snow Leopard's launch services now enforces the rule that if a UNIX process is to be started as set-UID, an administrator password is required. This has caused Super Get Info to be less useful than previous Mac OS X releases, but despite this, the tool is still good for some uses, particularly, modifying HFS filesystem flags (like, Invisible) and type/creator codes which I often need to "fix" things on my filesystem for the way I want my computer to work. For example, I often use type and creator codes to "force" the system to behave in a better way when responding to text files that don't have a ".txt" or ".text" suffix, by opening them in BBEdit. While there is another "Apple-sanctioned" way of doing this, the type/ creator mechanism has the advantage that if the file is moved to another volume by an application other than the Finder, the type/ creator code, and therefore, the behaviour, follows the file. How long this type/creator mechanism remains with us Macintosh users remains to be seen... because I don't believe that at this stage, the dynamic file typing mechanism that Apple has to replace it is robust enough--I have managed to break it more times than I can count. Given the current rotting state of Super Get Info, I am a little perplexed as to why BBEdit 9 and TextWrangler 3 still provide a reference to it as an auxiliary tool. Any comments about why Super Get Info was discontinued, and why BBEdit and TextWrangler still feature it as an auxiliary tool? And the ultimate question... are there any plans to remove said feature in the two text editors? Cheers! --tonza --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
