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I use the built-in browser. Why does OmegaEdit open certain files like xxx.png with external applications?

April 26, 2017applications browser built-in certain external files omegaedit

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I use the built-in browser. Why does OmegaEdit open certain files like xxx.png with external applications?

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Because OmegaEdit is very good at handling all kinds of text files but cannot work with binary data like image files. There is no way to definitely tell a binary file from a text file so OmegaEdit uses file-extensions to make reasonable decisions. If you happen to have a xxx.png file that IS text then.. uh.. you should probably rename it to xxx.txt.