X-KDE-IsAlso=text/plain

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 14:53, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 14:45, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 July 2005 09:10, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 July 2005 01:25, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > > >On Tuesday 26 July 2005 22:11, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > > >> RFC 2046:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> <quote>The subtype "plain" in
> > > > >>           particular indicates plain text containing no
> > > > >>           formatting commands or directives of any sort. Plain
> > > > >>           text is intended to be displayed "as-is".</quote>
> > > > >
> > > > >Than how can we know if a files can be opened in a text editor or
> > > > > not?
> > > >
> > > > Any text/* can be opened in a text editor, by definition.
> > > >
> > > > If the user can make heads or tails of it is another story.
> > >
> > > application/x-php is also text... Same for other scripts.
> >
> > Well, it should probably x-kde-isAlso'ed to some text/*
> >
> > So I propose anything that isAlso text/* can be opened by a text-editor..
>
> But, to repeat it, this is not possible, except if you use text/plain in a
> way that it is not defined by IANA.
>
Why is that not possible?
We could just define the editors to work on text/*, and if they don't support 
wildcards I will just add it.

`Sllsn