On 5/9/19 at 4:36 AM, [email protected] (Scott in
Pollock) wrote:
Not to be argumentative, but to be clear… the OS still
supports it (always has).
No, you're obviously being argumentative. :-)
There are various places in which the OS *allows* the
specification and description of four-character type and creator
codes in various places. This does not mean that they are *supported*.
The legacy file system APIs which explicitly supported HFS file
type and creator still work for the moment, but are deprecated.
Their replacements (which BBEdit 12.5 and later are using)
explicitly do *not* include support for the legacy HFS type and
creator codes.
Moreover, the HFS *creator* code would have mattered once upon a
time, but the OS launch services (which is what the Finder uses
to decide which application opens a given file) ignore the HFS
creator code.
It's not subject to interpretation or appeal.
It's time to forget about HFS type and creator, thank them for
their service, and move on.
To solve your problem: if you want to make new clippings that
will open in BBEdit when you double-click them in the Finder,
give them a ".txt" extension.
Or you can use one of the other mechanisms available to open
clippings without leaving BBEdit: use the Edit button in the
Clippings palette, or hold down the Option key while choosing a
clipping from the menu (which is working again in 12.6.4, betas
of which have been posted on this list).
There are many aspects of the old ways which were arguably
better than the current ways; but I find that railing against
the march of progress is generally better at producing carbon
dioxide than it is at producing results. :-)
R.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.
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