Plain text file extension

Bike Outliner
1

I’d like to use .md as plain text file extension, but it is not accepted. Markdown is plain text after all, and you can open existing .md files.

Thanks
Ovan

2

On my computer this is already possible, I can change the plain text file extension to .md.

I think the issue might be that on my computer .md is considered a plain text file while on your computer maybe not? I think the reason why this would be the case is because we have different applications installed and defining .md files. (Bike on it’s own doesn’t specify anything about .md files)

It’s confusing, but here you can see in terminal app what .md is on my computer:

jessegrosjean@Jesses-MBP Desktop % mdls -name kMDItemContentTypeTree my.md 
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
    "net.daringfireball.markdown",
    "public.plain-text",
    "public.text",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)
jessegrosjean@Jesses-MBP Desktop %

Can you try running that same command in Terminal.app on a .md file on your computer?

Also for a bit more on file types in macOS this is a good post:

3

Sure, here’s mine:

kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
    "net.ia.markdown",
    "public.plain-text",
    "public.text",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)

My issue is that when I type md in the config modal, it gets reset to text.

2302OVIldWdWIKAN

4

Thanks, I see problem now, will try to get fixed in future release.

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