On Saturday, October 31, 2015, Andrew Davidson <[email protected]>
wrote:
I know about that trick, but that wasn't quite what I wanted. That
will make all .ino files open with BBEdit. I still want the primary
choice to be the Arduino app, but I just want to have BBEdit be listed
as an alternate.
The OS application/document binding system is built on the
assumption that there is typically a one-to-one correspondence
between file types (based on filename extensions) and the
applications that can open them.
One exception to this is the unidirectional one-to-many
relationship between certain "core" file types and the
applications that can open them: for example, ".txt" files are
universally recognized as text files, and thus any application
that advertises its ability to open text files can thus be
listed as available to open a ".txt" file.
Unfortunately, the OS does not support the converse case of
this, namely, you can't tell the OS that a file of arbitrary
type (based on filename extension) is a text file, because
that's a use case that was either never considered, or was
marginalized during the design of the OS document binding system.
So there's no way (at the user level) to tell the OS "Files
whose names end in .ino are text files" -- all you can do is
designate a single default application to open those .ino files.
All of that said: even though you can't set things up to make
the application available in the "Open With" list, for a number
of years BBEdit has exported a service: "Open File in BBEdit".
This is available under the "Services" submenu when you
right-click on a file in the Finder, and when you choose it will
open the file in BBEdit, whether the OS thinks it's a text file
or not.
R.
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