Recently, I switched from MDS Edit to an editor called QUED. I like this editor a lot, but at the time, I was faced with a problem. All of my text files were Edit documents. Double-clicking them always brought up Edit, and if I deleted Edit, I had to go into the editor (QUED) and choose the file that I wanted to Edit. As time went on, more and more of my files had been created by QUED. Now, whenever I sent source code to friends or posted it, the text files were QUED documents, so that the recipients faced the same problem that I had.
My temporary solution to this problem is TEXT Ranger. TEXT Ranger looks at all the text files on a disk and allows you to change the creator and delete the resource fork of all the files quickly. TEXT Ranger is also the first program to use what I call the "Standard Volume Package". This is a small front-end for Standard File which makes it suitable for choosing disks rather than files. (It consists of a little bit of machine code, and a small resource file.)
When you double-click TEXT Ranger, you will see a Standard Volume dialog. Use all the buttons the same way you would use them in Standard File, and Open a disk. Once you open the disk, you will see a window which tells you the name of the disk (and the names of any folders which are being examined). TEXT Ranger will look for all of the text files that it can find. This includes MacTerminal documents and MS-BASIC programs, as well as other kinds of text files.
The version number of TEXT Ranger is in the left hand side of the menu bar, where the apple menu normally resides.
Whenever TEXT Ranger sees a kind of text file (creator) that it has not seen before, it presents you with a dialog box. Choose the actions that you would like for that particular kind of text file and TEXT Ranger will use your "recipe" each time it sees that kind of file.
I use TEXT Ranger each time I receive a new set of interface files from Apple, to make it easy to look at them.
Hopefully, some more graceful answer to the multi-editor "dilemma" will show up. Until then, I hope TEXT Ranger is of some help.
