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Right Click - Edit with Notepad
Developers and system administrators often need to open files of types that aren't mapped to a particular program. This ofcourse requires that slow "Open With" window to pop up. A trick I recently found is to add a shortcut to the right click menu, to open files with notepad.
This is done by editing the registry, under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\ There may or may not be a key under the * called Shell, if its not there create a key called Shell under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\. Under the Shell key create a key called Notepad, and under notepad create a key called Command. So now you shold be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Notepad\Command. Set the value of (Default) in the Command key to be notepad %1 or the path to another text editor.
Now when you right click on any file there will be a item in the menu called Notepad, that you can use to open the file with notepad.
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RightClick -> SendTo -> Notepad
I wonder if a script could be written to take advantage of the "file" command [http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/file.1.html] that I commonly use on my linux desktop.
I've replaced notepad with metapad. Small, fast, no filesize limit, intelligent find-and-replace, goto line/column, UNIX file support, recent files list, wordwrap and more.
Metapad http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Any help is appreciated.
I'm using SciTE, but just about any text editor works great here!
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