On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
It does? Show me how to specify that one file - which might have the exact same name as many similar files - should be associated with a different program than the one its name would normally suggest. Show me how to identify multiple file types for a given file, independently of its filename. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
