[off-topic] remove app association from file extension

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your reply.

On 2019-04-22 06:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> There is an app called Choosy that lets you configure what happens
> when you click a URL outside of a web browser. It can be configured
> to ask every time which browser should open the URL. This only works
> for URLs, but it illustrates that it would be possible to write a
> program that does the same thing for file MIME types or extensions.
> You would tell the OS that you want .md files to open into this new
> hypothetical application, and the app would then ask you what program
> you really want to open it with. It would probably not be too
> difficult to write such a program. There may even be one out there
> already.

Yea, I thought about such a program as well. I hoped I could avoid
writing one...

As you said, maybe one exists already.

Cheers,
  K. C.

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