Default text editor

[Hinko Kocevar]

Peter de Ridder wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar at i-tech.si> wrote:
>> 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
>>>
> 
> These Setting you set here are stored in
> ~/.local/share/applications/default.list.

My ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list contains this lines:
[Default Applications]
image/jpeg=gimv-usercreated.desktop
text/plain=gedit.desktop
text/x-log=gedit.desktop
text/x-readme=gedit.desktop

> And these local setting overrule the global setting stored in
> /usr/share/applications/default.list.

/usr/share/applications/default[s].list does not exist on my system.

> If you set an editor for mime type text/plain of text files are opened
> by this applications.
> For example. Also text/html would be open be opened by this editor (so
> that would make the editor at text/plain your default editor.
> If there is an entry from text/html in the default.list file this
> editor would overrule the one set for text/plain.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> So in your case set text/plain=gedit.desktop and remove other text
> based entries from the default.list file. If you set this in your
> ~/.local/share/applicaitons/default.list file, make sure also set,
> atleast, the entries from /usr/share/applications/default.list which
> you don't agree with.

That seems to works.
Now momomo, bobo, fubar, notes and REDAME files are by default opened in
the gedit.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Hinko

> 
> Regards,
> Peter
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