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TextWrangler: takes over your machine :(
Authored by: sighsigh on Jan 19, '05 12:17:47PM

just tried installing it on my test laptop under 10.3.7 and the little blighter promptly did a M$ thingy and took over every single text file sig type on the entire machine.... its just taken me 20 minutes to set them back to there originals!

NOT the kind of behavour I want to see outside M$....

Very unimpressed.



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TextWrangler: takes over your machine :(
Authored by: Shawn Parr on Jan 19, '05 03:43:30PM

Hm, when I installed it I didn't have this happen.

Currently I am on a workstation logged in remotely via LDAP though, so I will install on my home machine tonight and if it happens will report back.

My account is an admin on the network though, so I can install/modify settings on all the machines.



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TextWrangler: takes over your machine :( - Follow Up
Authored by: Shawn Parr on Jan 19, '05 08:21:43PM

I have installed this at home now. Still nothing out of the box associated with TextWrangler. Plain text and rtf are still associated with TextEdit. Old BBEdit Lite files are still associated with BBEdit.

I currently have no files associated with TextWrangler

But will soon. The terminal edit command is a great feature. :)



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re: terminal edit command
Authored by: sjk on Feb 01, '05 09:43:38PM

And SubEthaEdit has a "see" command line interface.



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TextWrangler: takes over your machine :(
Authored by: Makoto on Jan 19, '05 06:08:29PM

It didn't do that to me, either.




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TextWrangler: takes over your machine :(
Authored by: rmsiegel on Jan 19, '05 06:34:52PM
TextWrangler: takes over your machine :(

It does nothing of the sort. The OS recognized that it was capable of opening those files which otherwise had not file type or application binding, and so it used TextWrangler's icon for those files. However, the files are unmodified, and if you want to you can select one of them and use the Finder's "Get Info" command to change the binding for all files of that type.



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TextWrangler: doesn't take over your machine :(
Authored by: lrivers on Jan 19, '05 06:40:14PM

Well, for that matter, so do most other text editors. Typically, all you have to do is pick 1 file with the offending extension, then open the Finder's "Get Info" inspector, and switch the default app with the "Open With" part. Shouldn't take 20 minutes...



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TextWrangler: takes over your machine :(
Authored by: Jwink3101 on Jan 19, '05 08:04:56PM

I had the same experience with the trial of BBedit. Now when i come across a changed file i will just change it back.



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