[OS X TeX] MacTeX breaks BBEdit clippings

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 10/12/09 09:16, "Fritz Anderson" <fritza at manoverboard.org> wrote:

> The problem comes with the clippings directory "LaTeX.tex."
> Incredibly, applications in MacTeX register .tex as a _package_
> extension. ("Incredibly" is the mildest term I can think of.)

Indeed...  Maybe that is or was Xcode's default in the silly inspector view
that forces you to choose a "Store Type" for all documents?

> The culprits seem to be TeXShop and Excalibur. I've edited the
> Info.plist files of both, killing the LSTypeIsPackage key for .tex.
> I've done everything I can think of with lsregister. TeXShop seems to
> have come around, but the lsregister dump for Excalibur persists in
> showing the package flag for .tex.
> 
> This is all but a show-stopper for me. How do I correct this?

Have you tried -kill on the ls database?  If that doesn't work, I'd just
dump the offending app(s) if you're not using them.  Is there a chance that
Excalibur has embedded type information in it?  ISTR it's purely Carbon.