plist files ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Is there something magic BBedit does to plist files before opening them ? When I open the same file in something else I get a binary blob...


Jean-Christophe Helary
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[François Schiettecatte]

plist files can be compressed, see the plutil command line for more info.

Cheers

François

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[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Jun 16, 2018, at 22:25, François Schiettecatte <fschiet...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> plist files can be compressed, see the plutil command line for more info.

:) That's not what I am asking :)

When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml file. TextEdit or any other standard text editor (emacs, nano, etc.) give you a binary blob.

[François Schiettecatte]

BBEdit will automatically decompress certain file types when reading them.

[Tom Robinson]

On 2018-06-17, at 01:45, Jean-Christophe Helary <brand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml file. TextEdit or any other standard text editor (emacs, nano, etc.) give you a binary blob.

From the friendly manual:

> BBEdit transparently opens and displays the contents of any bz2 or gzip-compressed files (“.bz2”, “.gz” and “.gzip” files), as well as tarballs (“.tar” files) and binary plists (“.plist” files), both directly and during multi-file search.
>
> This is especially useful for viewing and working with system log files and similar automatically-generated files, as well as system and application preference files.
>
> If you make any changes to such a file and save it, BBEdit will automatically re-compress or re-convert the file on save.

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Thank you Tom :)

On Jun 18, 2018, at 6:19, Tom Robinson <barefo...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2018-06-17, at 01:45, Jean-Christophe Helary <brand...@gmail.com> wrote:

When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml file. TextEdit or any other standard text editor (emacs, nano, etc.) give you a binary blob.

From the friendly manual:

BBEdit transparently opens and displays the contents of any bz2 or gzip-compressed files