[Mac OS X TeX] Excalibur and TeXShop '.tex' files

[William Duckworth]

If you hold down Option+Command upon dragging a file, this forces the 
icon to highlight and the app to try and open the file even if it 
doesn't recognize the file type in OSX.


>  >I have used 'FileTyper' to change to 'TEXT', but still can't drag and drop,
>>although I can open through Excalibur. Actually, the icon doesn't even
>>highlight. It just ignores the file. Actually, I get this quite a lot with
>>OS X in general. Any ideas?
>
>I get quite a bit of odd behavior with types too.  (How does OS X map
>extensions to file types?  Why doesn't it just change the type of any
>.txt or .tex file to 'TEXT'?)  This is another reason I've been
>dragging my feet over changing how Excalibur handles file types.  I
>don't think Apple has a grip on this issue yet.
>
>Rick
>
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