Re:Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first ...
by derefr on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:55PM
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>> and opening Settings fires up Visual Studio of all things
> Settings opens what ever editor is your default for .json files.
And one can also point out that macOS opens XCode for (even XML-based) .plist files.
It's getting to be a standard convention, now that IDEs are almost "ships with the OS" kind of software, that the OS thinks configuration files should be opened in the IDE, rather than the system GUI text editor (Notepad; TextEdit.) Because, I guess, the system text editors were never really made to edit code, and make no guarantee that they won't break the formatting of code, while IDEs do make that guarantee.
> Settings opens what ever editor is your default for .json files.
And one can also point out that macOS opens XCode for (even XML-based) .plist files.
It's getting to be a standard convention, now that IDEs are almost "ships with the OS" kind of software, that the OS thinks configuration files should be opened in the IDE, rather than the system GUI text editor (Notepad; TextEdit.) Because, I guess, the system text editors were never really made to edit code, and make no guarantee that they won't break the formatting of code, while IDEs do make that guarantee.