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I cannot open some text files with an embedded text editor depending on the extension in the file name.
For example, if I have Wavefront .obj file, KDevelop will open it with hex editor, in the Open With menu only hex editors are available.
There is File Type Options button in the file properties, but if I click to this button nothing happens and no output in stdout/stderr from KDevelop.
I am using Gentoo Linux distribution with KDevelop 5.5.2
Had same problem, and here's quick solution:
Click right on your file in file manager (in my kde it's default dolphin);
Select "Properties";
In opened window click "File type options";
In the next opened window select "Embedding" tab;
In services prefering order list select Okteta, and then remove it;
Click ok and it's done.
KDevelop after that, stops use hex editor and open files in embedded text viewer. Note, that this recipe would work only for one file type (or extension), that was selected in first step.
Trying to filter file types in Notepad++ Open file dialog box opens all files of that type in that folder
I tried to go through the Options but given they are so many, can't seem to figure out whether one can get Notepad++ to just show the files of that type instead of opening them all
I don't have any code for this
Expected results: show all files of a file type
Actual result: all files are opened.
I found the setting: (I had never changed this setting, so it was curious)
I don't understand how files are stored. I opened my text editor, wrote down some gibberish and saved it as .pdf, and then tried to open it with a pdf reader. The pdf reader could not open it. Someone please explain what happened here?
Let's say you have a folder system in your office, that says "English documents go into brown folders; Spanish documents go into pink folders; French documents in red folders; Japanese documents in white folders;..."
If you put "これは英語じゃね〜よばか" into a brown folder, it doesn't make the text English. It just means you put it into a wrong folder. If you put "egu egu egu egu egu" into a Japanese folder, it doesn't stop being gibberish.
File extension is a part of a file name that we use by convention to mark what kind of content a file has (kind of like a folder colour). File format is the structure of the content a file has (kind of like knowing what language to use to read the paper within).
Extensions are primarily for users, so we know what each file has, and also a shortcut so OS can open a file with an application it thinks is suited for it (just like one could see a brown folder and decide it should go to the English-speaking employee).
Just like a Japanese speaker will be able to read a Japanese text in a brown folder (if explicitly handed one), a PDF reader will be able to read a PDF-format document, whatever the extension (if you make the PDF-reader open it, rather than relying on the OS to figure out the correct application). Just like no-one can read "egu egu egu egu egu" despite its folder's claims of it being Japanese, the PDF reader is confused to find a non-PDF-formatted content inside a .pdf extension file.
File extensions and file formats are often spoken about
interchangeably. In reality, however, a file extension is just the
characters that appear after the period, while the file format speaks
to the way in which the data in the file is organized.
So, in your example, you have created file in txt format and manually updated extension to .pdf. PDF reader thinks that it can open that file (since it has .pdf extension), but it wasn't able since it's formatted as txt.
To sum, you can change extension, but no format. In order to change format, you have to use some kind of converter.
File extension is part of file name so it's just a label. You won't change file format by changing its label just as changing the name of the shortcut on your desktop from "MS Word" to "Battlefield 2" won't magically allow you to play this game for free:)
How can I find a file by name in Visual Studio Code?
A Visual Studio shortcut I'm used to is CTRL+,, but it does not work here.
When you have opened a folder in a workspace you can do Ctrl+P (Cmd+P on Mac) and start typing the filename, or extension to filter the list of filenames
if you have:
plugin.ts
page.css
plugger.ts
You can type css and press enter and it will open the page.css. If you type .ts the list is filtered and contains two items.
Press Ctl+T will open a search box. Delete # symbol and enter your file name.
I believe the action name is "workbench.action.quickOpen".
It is CMD + P (or CTRL + P) by default. However the keyboard bindings may differ according to your preferences.
To know your bindings go to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" settings and search for "Go to File"
It's Ctrl+Shift+O / Cmd+Shift+O on mac.
You can see it if you close all tabs
According to this Github page, it's now a simple Cmd+F inside the File Explorer tree on Mac (and presumably Ctrl+F on Windows). Found and highlighted all the README.md files I've been working on:
file search results in vscode file explorer pane
Caveat: The tree has to be fully expanded for this to work.
is it possible to map the suffix of files opened by sublime text 2 to be similar to other languages to get the text coloring? for example, when i open a *.cu file, this isn't recognize by sublime text as a valid file extension, so it opens the file and there are no text coloring in there at all. however if you open a php or c++ files, the the file will be recognized as valid file extension, and there will be text coloring, making it much easier to read.
I know text wrangler has this feature, and you cam map *.cu file extension to be like c++ so when you open a .cu file, the text coloring will be similar to a c++ file.
Yes it is.
Please see:
http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/05/11/sublime-text-2-tips-for-python-and-web-developers/
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Map file formats to syntax highlighting