Bug#295829: acknowledged by developer (You can already do this using "Open With")

[Matthew Newton]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:18:46AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> It can be changed. Right click on the text file go to "Properties" then
> "Open With" and select gnome-text-editor. Or were you arguing that
> gnome-text-editor should be the out-of-the-box default? If so I'd file a
> wishlist bug stating that.

This only changes the text editor for that type of file. Many different
types of file open with a text editor, and it should be possible to
change the system default for all of them.

It should also be possible for each user to specify their default text
editor. I prefer to use gvim for all my text editing needs, but I can
see that other users of the system would prefer the current default of
gedit.

>From what I remember, older versions of GNOME did not seem to suffer
from this problem.

-- 
Matthew Newton <mcn4@le.ac.uk>

UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section,
Computer Centre, University of Leicester,
Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom