- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:39:21 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Keith Hopper <kh@waikato.ac.nz>
- cc: <www-amaya@w3.org>
Hmmm. MacOS does this too. But I think it is still valuable for Amaya users (and users of any editor) to be able to override the default type of a document and force it to be opened as something else. (The lack of this feature is my biggest complaint about most editors I use) cheers Charles On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Keith Hopper wrote: > >In article <3D44BF59.70108@cherokeescouting.org>, > Brant Langer Gurganus <brantgurganus2001@cherokeescouting.org> wrote: >> I opened README.cvs from the CVS repository. Amaya considers this a >> text file since it does not have htm or html as an extension. Amaya >> should use another method for determining file types. > >> Another alternative, probably the preferred method, is to have an Open >> As... menu so I can say whether to open it as text or HTML. > > No! The best is to have an OS which allocates types to files >irrespective of what they might be named - and yes, there is one - I use it >over 99% of my time - it's called RISCOS and runs on an ARM processor! > > Unashamed plug! > > Keith > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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