The whole problem of opening files with a double click is not BBEdit's fault. Apple has deliberately chosen to become compatible with the masses at the expense of the friendly TYPE, CREATOR, FREF, and BNDL resources of old APPL's (or is it AAPL which is an improvement). I call it a case of Gresham's law applied outside of its regular field of numismatics.
But BBEdit does offer a solution which works easily for me. Forget about Mac OS neXt Finder. It's what actually provides the double click feature in the first place. Set up a BBEdit worksheet to replace it. Program your Microsoft mouse so that the right button behaves as an ENTER key within the BBEdit application. Now set up lines in the worksheet that look like this: open -a Lynx /Volumes/Echo/htmlwork/myfile.html bbedit /Volumes/Echo/htmlwork/myfile.html # The bbedit tool is special to Bare Bones. Is there one for Text Wrangler? open -a Finder /Volumes/Echo/htmlwork/ Add a whole lot more with comment lines describing them and set up a BBEdit mark menu that will send you to the one you want. Turn on "select entire lines" which makes the cursor turn into a right pointing arrow over at the left side of the window. Select a line you want and poke the right button. Just like the double click of old and perhaps a bit better. Certainly more customizable. Now if BBEdit would please allow the mark menu to be alphabetically sorted (like MPW of old) . . . ***** A question. In Tiger (I can't use it.) does a change of "open with" using Finder still add 50 kilobytes to a resource fork of the file just to hold the new icon? And something to remember. TYPE and CREATOR codes can be set for a file with the tool SetFile which can be found in the developer tools. Even if you don't have the tools loaded you can add just SetFile and GetFileInfo to a personal directory which you can add to your PATH environment variable. -- Applescript syntax is like English spelling: Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
