Default text editor

[Hinko Kocevar]

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 11/03/2009 09:23 AM, Hinko Kocevar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Xfce for quite some time and I'm really satisfied with the
>> course its development is taking toward full featured and stable desktop
>> environment.
>>
>> I'm currently running:
>>
>> Xfce 4 Desktop Environment
>> version 4.6.1 (Xfce 4.6)
>>
>> on Gentoo based Linux OS.
>>
>> I'm just curious how can one set different text editor by default?
>> Every text document is currently associated with the muosepad editor but
>> I would like to use gedit instead. Is this only achieved by manually
>> associating every text document type with gedit instead of mousepad?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Hinko
> 
> In Thunar:
> 
> * Right-click on a text document
> * Select "Open with ->"
> * Select "Open with other application ..."
> * In the "Open with" dialog, choose the app you want to associate with
> the document, and make sure "Use as default for this kind of file" is
> checked
> * Click the "Open" button
> 

Yes, that helps.
But for files without extension (eg. .log, .txt) say notes, readme and
similar this has to be done for each file name separately. I was was
hoping for more general solution where gedit would assume 'default text
editor' position in place of mousepad.

Best regards,
Hinko

> HTH,
> 
> DR
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