<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 7, 2021, 04:18 Stefan Blachmann <<a href="mailto:sblachmann@gmail.com">sblachmann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 5/7/21, Thayne McCombs <<a href="mailto:astrothayne@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">astrothayne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I open text files in a lot of different formats, and I'd like to be able<br>
> to open<br>
> them all with the same editor, but adding an entry for every text/*<br>
> entry that I<br>
> could ever possibly use to my mimeapps.list is quite a pain.<br>
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This is why my opinion is that the correct and simplest way to deal<br>
with that mess is not introducing more complicated configuration<br>
bureaucracy, instead just respecting (e.g. memorizing) your preference<br>
for each file type/format you showed by using OpenWith.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But I don't want to be prompted seperately for every text type. I just want to set the default for text/* once. I don't disagree with prompting the user and storing the result, but that is orthogonal to being able to make a default application for a wildcard. The prompt could even have an option to make the app the default for all text, all images, etc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And of course if there is a more specific rule (for example, a rule for text/css) that would have higher precedence than a wildcard rule </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div>