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In Windows, every text editor I encountered allowed me to drag and drop any file type into it and it opened. Apparently, Mac app developers have a different philosophy because I can't find a simple free text editor for OS X that will do this. TextWrangler came highly recommended but it can't accomplish this simple feat. Can anyone suggest one?
Edit apparently on at least some editors, there is a distinction between drag/drop in the document list area vs. the typing area. In addition to the accepted answer, this is one thing to be aware of. I still don't know why it doesn't work in TextEdit, but this is true for TextWrangler and Smultron.
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For Textwrangler - You just need to drag it to the Documents draw and a blah.hdl file opened perfectly well for me. It even will try to open binary files that way, but may ask you for an encoding to use...
To change it asking what to do you can track down a setting in the Textwrangler Text Files preferences:
Also, works for me perfectly well (renamed a file blah.hdl and dragged) in Textmate. In fact I can drag anything into Textmate and it will 'open' it (no snarky-ness intended ;-)
Gaff
Drag-and-drop works for MacVim. It also works in Aquamacs.
Edit: Dragging-and-dropping a PDF into TextWrangler did not work. Apparently TextWrangler tries to figure out whether or not you should be opening that file in a text editor.
My vote is for jEdit.
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As a bonus it's Java-based, and therefore cross-platform for the times when you are forced to abandon your beloved Mac.
Er, TextEdit. Drag any file onto the Dock icon and it will open it.
Try this: Vim (Vi IMproved) for Mac OS X
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Diogo