Default text editor

[Hinko Kocevar-5]

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

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[darose]

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

HTH,

DR
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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

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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[Peter de Ridder]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> 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.
And these local setting overrule the global setting stored in
/usr/share/applications/default.list.
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.

Regards,
Peter
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[darose]

On 11/04/2009 03:04 AM, Hinko Kocevar wrote:

> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> 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

Oh, OK.  Not sure then how you'd do this with Xfce/Thunar.  I'm a former
KDE user who recently switched to Xfce and love it for the most part,
but I still prefer and use Konqueror as a file manager over Thunar.  And
what you're looking for I think is pretty easy to do in Konqueror:  the
file associations are by mime type, and so as long as Konqueror is able
to recognize the doc as type "text/plain" it'll still associate it with
the proper app.

HTH,

DR
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[Hinko Kocevar-5]

Peter de Ridder wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@...> 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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