*.txt files

[sprocket_dk]

Hej I can't seem to open txt files. When I double click on a txt file nothing happens. Am I missing some program here?

[scorp123]

Hej I can't seem to open txt files. When I double click on a txt file nothing happens. Am I missing some program here?

That's weird. Are you sure those files aren't empty? e.g. do they have a file length? Maybe it's just the file associations that got messed up? Do you use KDE or GNOME?

[sprocket_dk]

I'm using gnome. when I right click my desktop, make document and chose text file I can't enter it.

[Husse]

Files with a .txt file association tend to be treated as executable text files but certainly something should happen....

[scorp123]

Files with a .txt file association tend to be treated as executable text files

Huh??? On which OS and from which parallel Universe?

[sprocket_dk]

I can get it to open with open office, but is'nt there a more ligt text editor. The one in my applications does'nt work. Maby I should reinstall it, but what the name of it?

[linuxviolin]

I have no problem to open the .txt files with the text editor... your problems are surprising, or I misunderstand you (that is always possible)

[Husse]

scorp123 wrote:

Husse wrote:
Files with a .txt file association tend to be treated as executable text files
Huh??? On which OS and from which parallel Universe?

:)
Most something.txt on my Mint, but much something.txt comes from my ntfs partition so that may be it...

[scorp123]

your problems are surprising, or I misunderstand you (that is always possible)

Pas de f***ing kidding, I had the very same thought

[scorp123]

something.txt comes from my ntfs partition so that may be it...

Yes, because there those files (and everything else) get the execute bit set unless you set the "noexec" parameter or use a proper Linux filesystem which is able to report the correct bit settings (rwx ..) to the system. This has not really something to do with the *.txt files being really 'executable' but rather how Linux is interpreting stuff from non-Linux filesystems.

[Husse]

Yaeh - that's it, but I've got some .txt files not coming from ntfs being like that too....
So much so that it's been annoying - but normal .txt don't - just checked
It was so much that I was beginning to think it was something with the .txt - and you don't use file extensions much in Linux....

[scorp123]

Yaeh - that's it, but I've got some .txt files not coming from ntfs being like that too....

Maybe they originate from Windows or some other non-UNIX-like OS? Could be then that somehow that execute bit got preserved.

So much so that it's been annoying

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