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List:       vim-mac
Subject:    Re: setting up gvim to override other OS X editors
From:       Gabriel Birke <birke () kontor4 ! de>
Date:       2004-06-11 7:50:57
Message-ID: 12D9D3B2-BB7C-11D8-897A-003065FA313E () kontor4 ! de
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Hello!

There are two ways to tell Mac OS X which program to use for a file: 
The global setting and the per-file setting.

Both settings can be reached in the Finder by selecting the .txt file 
and calling the "Get Info" commmand (Command-I or File Menu).

In the info window you can see the section "open with". Here you can 
select Vim from the drop-down List. After you selected Vim, you have 
changed the per-file setting.
If you want all .txt files to be opened with Vim, press the "change 
all" button. With this button, you change the global setting.

However, there is a small problem:
Per-file settings override global settings.
"Greedy" programs can set per-file settings so you have to revert the 
settings via "Get Info" again.

I think the per-file setting is done via setting the type and creator 
code of the file (a feature of the file system). You can find many 
utilities on Versiontracker which integrate into the context menu or 
Finder and that let you set type and creator codes. Don't know which 
creator code Vim has. Leave the type as "TEXT".
You can also use the command line tool SetFile from the developer tools 
CD (its in /Developer/Tools after you installed the developer tools).

If you want an absolutely radical approach, write a shell script that 
sets type and creator for all .txt files with the SetFile command. Call 
that shell script every 5 or 30 or 60 minutes with a cron job.

Hope this helps.

With best regards

Gabriel Birke

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Am 10.06.2004 um 23:24 schrieb Steve Michalske:

> Hello folks,
>
> I am trying to set up gvim to be the only editor that I use,  but 
> often text edit will take back owning txt files.  how can I force gvim 
> to be the preferred application?
>
> It seems that just editing the plist file isn't enough
> steve
>
>


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