Change the Gnome Commander default editor
paul
posted @ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:51:13 +0800
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The default editor for Gnome Commander is geit. Of cause gedit is good enough, but I prefer to VIM.
The changing of preferred programs in Gnome Commander seems broken somehow. It simply does not work.
Since Gnome is following the standard of handling mime types, we can still update the mime settings to choose the preferred editor.
The preferred applicaiton configuration file is located in ~/.local/share/applications, the file name is defaults.list.
Here is the content of my default.list
[Default Applications] text/html=gvim.desktop application/xml=gvim.desktop text/plain=gvim.desktop text/x-java=gvim.desktop text/x-python=gvim.desktop
As you may guess, I open all the html, xml, text, java and python file with GVIM.
The gvim.desktop is the configuration for gvim for what mime types it can handle and its launching command.
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