How to change MacOS to use BBEdit as my default editor?

[David Barto]

This article <https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/25/explainer-how-does-macos-recognise-file-types/> shows how the lookup sequence works. My question is how to modify it to have .txt, .py, and other extensions use BBEdit as the default editor, rather than TextEdit or Xcode.

David

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David Barto
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[Rich Siegel]

On 27 Oct 2025, at 15:25, David Barto wrote:

> This article <https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/25/explainer-how-does-macos-recognise-file-types/> shows how the lookup sequence works. My question is how to modify it to have .txt, .py, and other extensions use BBEdit as the default editor, rather than TextEdit or Xcode.

The Finder is generally used for this, via the "Change All" button in the Finder's "Get Info" window.

R.

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