Actually, I just found an interesting (though cumbersome) workaround:
- Right click on the greyed file name
- Select "Quick Look"
- Close the "Quick Look" window
- Now the file will be highlighted and you can hit "open" (or double click).

And then if one edits the file and  re-saves it from BBEdit, it is 
magically now accessible from the  Open...  dialog.

Interesting...

Ken

On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 11:14:30 AM UTC-5 Ken L wrote:

> Thanks for the response Rich.  Unfortunately that is not the case.  The 
> "greyed out" files don't even highlight when clicked (or double-clicked).  
> Nothing happens, they are not accessible from that file dialog.
>
> Ken
>
> On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 11:03:49 AM UTC-5 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>
>> On 16 Feb 2021, at 10:55, Ken L wrote: 
>>
>> > Summary of issue is that when I try to use the "Open..." dialog, most 
>> > of my 
>> > text source files (I'm a Perl programmer usually) show up in the 
>> > window as 
>> > greyed out. 
>>
>> They may show that way; but you can still click on them or double-click 
>> to open. The Open panel in macOS is weird and sometimes slow to catch 
>> up. There's nothing particularly wrong; that's just how it is. 
>>
>> R. 
>>
>> -- 
>> Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. 
>> <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> 
>>
>> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. 
>>
>

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