Windows users will find the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\. Windows, Mac, and Linux all use this to manually map IP addresses to hostnames. One config file you're almost certainly familiar with is the hosts file. As we mentioned earlier, they come in all different shapes and sizes. Now, let's take a look at a real-world config file.
This way, if something goes wrong, you can restore the copy and start again! Whatever config file you want to edit it's smart to make a copy of it before you make any changes. Meanwhile others periodically check the config file to see if it has been changed. To respond to your assertion that the Preferences screen is already too crowded, I can’t imagine that adding one more checkbox would bother anyone and this is a checkbox that many users have asked for.Some programs load the information stored in their config files when they start. It would be much faster and simpler if it would automatically open your Markdown editor of choice when you double-click on a MD or text file. Then you have to click another button to switch to plain text editing mode. Since DT has no built-in MD editor, double-clicking just gets you a MD preview window. In my specific use case, I store all my notes as Markdown documents. Yes, you can edit files directly within DT, but many users prefer to use external editors and it’s annoying to have to take an extra step each time we want to open a file externally. DT is first and foremost a database to store and organize files, not a file editor. The fact DT opens documents within itself, is often not convenient. It’s instantaneous, it’s simple and it’s consistent with what a user would expect. This requires the least amount of thought, the least amount of moving your fingers around on the keyboard and the least amount of moving your mouse cursor around. The point is, the intuitive behavior, common to all applications, is to double-click on a file open it. I know we can use the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut to open a document externally and sure, it only takes an extra half-second, but that’s not the point. I know you’ve said this setting won’t be added, but I’d like to add my voice to the chorus of users requesting it. This indicates that people like me, who like to automate away as many tasks as possible, are among the DT target audience, and we would all love the ability to go down a list of all file extensions that have been encountered in a database and pick the default action for those file types.Īnd an obvious solution to avoiding the “overloading” of preferences is to have an “advanced” section for stuff like this, right? Now, I get that, and if this was MS Word then I’d completely agree, but some of the purported strengths of DT are it’s customizability and scriptability. Also, we do not see adding more preferences to an overloaded set of preferences as a good option for our Users.” The response from DT was that “…the current behavior is in response to the majority of User demands. The (salty) comments on that post seem to indicate there is at least an interest in the ability to specify, on a file type basis, whether to open a file with DT or with an external program. In Feb last year, there was a post to the DT blog about opening files externally ( ). Please add the ability to specify the default program (DT or (which) external program) to use to open a file, on a file type basis.
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