![]() That’s all the magic you need (and all the magic you’ll get, too). Use the extension you like to identify them, tell DT to treat that extension as text, and tell the finder to open all files with this extension in BBEdit. And they don’t gain a magical existence by stating the name, either. As will DT, because it simply uses macOS’ underlying framework for that.Īgain: There is no BBEdit file. If you want a particular editor open files with a particular extension, tell the Finder, and it’ll make sure that happens. sh script and then web search for now to make. Why would it, and how could it? You can create (as said before) text files (including MD, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, whatever) with any editor. The main friction with bash scripting for folks like me that don’t live in Terminal is that you have to create a. Neither Finder nor any other program cares a bit about the app you used to create those files (The times of the four letter creator code are long gone). It’s what you set in Finder as the default app for files with a certain extension. Perhaps.Īs has been pointed out many times: This is in no way related to DT. What you might want is that files are opened by default with these apps, ie when you double-click on the file. And be able to search in BBEdit files in DT. I’d prefer to have files created in BBEdit open from/in DT without having to do that… I use them a lot. txt files in the Finder is for Emacs, not whatever comes from macOS by default, but that shouldn’t affect this test. I did it because for the previous >10 years, I’ve always migrated Macs when getting new machines, and this time I wanted to avoid the accumulated cruft that comes from doing it that way. Yes, it was extremely time-consuming and painful to do it this way. So, my conclusion from this is that whatever is happening, it is not due to an inherent limitation of DEVONthink with respect to files created by BBedit. This is about as close to off-the-shelf behavior for this combination as one could hope for. ![]() The nice thing about this test is that I only recently got my current Mac, and I did a clean install of everything (not using Migration Assistant ), and I did not have BBedit installed before today, so there could not have been any prior file associations or other connections between. Used ⌘⌥f in DEVONthink to search in the database for a line that I know existed in the file I wrote in BBedit.Dragged the file from the Finder into an existing database in DEVONthink.Saved the file as a “file from bbedit.txt”.Wrote 2 lines of very unique text in the window that it opened.I can’t speak to the previous discussions, but just to confirm (more to myself than anything) that I’m not crazy or talking out of my ass, I did the following test:
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