Re: plist files ?

2018-06-17 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
Thank you Tom :) > On Jun 18, 2018, at 6:19, Tom Robinson wrote: > > On 2018-06-17, at 01:45, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> >> When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml >> file. TextEdit or any other standard text editor (emacs, nano, etc.) give >> you a

Re: plist files ?

2018-06-17 Thread Tom Robinson
On 2018-06-17, at 01:45, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml > file. TextEdit or any other standard text editor (emacs, nano, etc.) give you > a binary blob. >From the friendly manual: > BBEdit transparently opens and

Re: plist files ?

2018-06-16 Thread François Schiettecatte
BBEdit will automatically decompress certain file types when reading them. > On Jun 16, 2018, at 6:45 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: > > > >> On Jun 16, 2018, at 22:25, François Schiettecatte >> wrote: >> >> plist files can be compressed, see the plutil command line for more info. >

Re: plist files ?

2018-06-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
> On Jun 16, 2018, at 22:25, François Schiettecatte > wrote: > > plist files can be compressed, see the plutil command line for more info. :) That's not what I am asking :) When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml file. TextEdit or any other standard text

Re: plist files ?

2018-06-16 Thread François Schiettecatte
plist files can be compressed, see the plutil command line for more info. Cheers François > On Jun 16, 2018, at 6:11 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: > > Is there something magic BBedit does to plist files before opening them ? > When I open the same file in something else I get a binary