Status: New
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Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium
New issue 1018 by [email protected]: need better suffix than ".txt" for
plain text files
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1018
Robot uses the ".txt" extension for plain text files. This choice is
problematic when implementing some sort of editor or IDE for test suite
files. For example, if I want my users to be able to double-click on a test
suite file to start the editor, I have to register RIDE or some other
program with the suffix ".txt". This causes problems because I then cannot
double-click on README.txt to open it up in a plain text editor (or, of
course, any of the other myriad .txt files on my disk)
Robot needs its own unique suffix IMO. I recommend .rxt or .rf, though
almost anything would be better than .txt. Other ideas: .rts (Robot Test
Suite), .psv (Pipe-Separated Values). It will be hard to find one that
isn't used *somewhere*, but at least we could pick one that isn't used
*everywhere*.
The goal is to pick one that isn't likely used by a program that is also
used by someone writing robot tests. For example, .rf was used by
FrameMaker, but probably nobody who uses robot also uses framemaker so it's
probably safe to use.
