More plain text extensions

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Hi. This is (hopefully) a simple request: although the list of extensions DT recognises as corresponding to a plain text file is quite extensive, every now and then i find one that is missing (usually for source code files; case in point: .erl). Would you consider adding .erl (Erlang source code) as a new txt extension in future versions? Alternatively, it’d be nice to make said list configurable, so that one can add new extensions (or provide some kind of mime type management/configuration)… unless, that is, this is already possible and i missed it :slight_smile:

Thanks,
jao

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Thanks for the suggestion, the next release will support .erl files.

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cgrunenberg, great!

If you’re going to add .erl, it would probably be a good idea to add .hrl too (it’s the extension for another kind of Erlang source files).

Thanks for your quick reply, and for keeping improving DT!

Cheers

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I’ll add .hrl too.

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I would like to see .textile added, too. This is ASCII formatted in Textile-Markup to be parsed to HTML.

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to let users add their own extensions?

Cheers!
Ralf

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Actually Apple has solved this problem for us already by introducing UTIs into Tiger, but unfortunately this is not compatible with Panther users. So this is why for version 1 of DT it will be cumbersome to do.

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I work with a lot of files that are plain text but use different extensions. I think that many academics, scientists, and programmers do as well. It would be really nice if you could simply tell DEVONthink how to treat certain files. For example: .fasta, .cpp, .cc, .m, .pdb, etc. can all be opened as plain text. It’s easy to tell the finder to open these in a text editor, it would be an excellent improvement to DEVONthink. If there is a way to do this, I’d would really like to know about it.

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There’s a hidden preference: You could either enter this in the Terminal…


defaults write com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2 AdditionalPlainTextExtensions -string .fasta.pdb

…while DEVONthink Pro (Office) isn’t running or click on the link…

x-devonthink://preference?key=AdditionalPlainTextExtensions&value=.fasta.pdb

…and relaunch DEVONthink.

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Can I add an extension to DEVONSphere express in the same way? I want it to find music files written in ‘abc’ notation, which are plain text with the extension abc.

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Welcome @thosgreen
No this is not supported in DEVONsphere Express.

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@BLUEFROG Thanks. Pity. Just to be clear, I didn’t mean “can DEVONsphere Express find those files already”, but “is it possible to customise DEVONsphere Express in a similar way that DEVONthink can apparently be customised?”. Presumably there’s a list of extensions somewhere in the code - it would only require extending that list.

Making DE customisable would surely be a good feature.