Chris Angelico wrote: [...] > > Yeah… magic… in the category of mind-reading? sooth- > > saying? > > Which is why OS/2, back in the 1990s, had *multiple* > associations for any given file. You could use file types > (sadly not MIME types - this was before MIME was the one > obvious standard to use) to identify *any number* of > programs that are likely to be used with a file, and then > one of them is the global default. For any specific file, > you can change which program is its own default, and even > add specific associations for that individual file. When > you double-click, you get the default; if you right-click > and choose "Open", you could pick from the associated > programs. A good system, and one that I still haven't seen > replicated in a mainstream OS.
Windows has the same features. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list