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Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort?

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On 2025/7/28 21:18:49, R.Wieser wrote:
> J. P.  ,
> 
>>>> On my machine that is what happens by default : if you forget the
>>>> extension none is used.  When you use an extension than that one
>>>> is used.   In both cases you get a warning though
>>>
>>> I think we're talking about different things. I'm talking about
>>> right-clicking in a folder (in File Explorer), and selecting New:
> 
> Don't worry, we are talking about the same thing.
> 
>>> You can't "forget" the extension - when you
>>> select one of the options, it preloads the extension (e. g. if you
>>> select Text Document, it creates "New Text Document.txt", with
>>> the part before the dot highlighted for you to tye-replace.
> 
> Well, that is different from what happens on my XP machine - there the whole 
> name (including the extension) is hi-lited.  Which sometimes leads to me 
> start typing a new filename and by it loosing the suggested filename, and 
> ofcourse the the extension too.

I'd forgotten that was how it used to work.>
>>> I wasn't trying to add a _specific_ new type (such as .css); I was
>>> wondering if there was any way to add a _generic_ "new file" to the
>>> list (of things it can create).

[]
> To be honest, I never thought about creating a file without an extension, as 
> it was, under XP, too easy to delete the extension.

[]
Yes, when you become aware that it is only too easy to do something by
mistake, you get sensitised to it and don't often do it!

I wasn't after a way to create an extensionless file - only to avoid
_predefined_ extensions, so I could make an arbitrary one without having
to accept the warning message.

The only time I've dealt with an extensionless file (apart from some
_really_ old ones - 1990s or earlier?, from before standard extensions
became a thing! - is the hosts file: see threads here passim.

-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Alcohol is way ahead of cocaine as the world's deadliest drug, hastening
around three million people per year into their graves (cocaine and
heroin and crystal meth account for around half a million annually).
Revd Richard Coles, RT 2021/7/3-9

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Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-28 18:18 +0100
  Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-28 19:10 +0100
    Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-28 22:18 +0200
      Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-29 01:37 +0100
        Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-29 09:10 +0200
          Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-29 18:46 +0100
            Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-07-29 13:58 -0400
            Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-29 20:21 +0200
              Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-07-29 15:20 -0400
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-29 21:47 +0200
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-29 22:38 +0100
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-30 08:57 +0200
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-29 22:02 -0400
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-30 09:54 +0200
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2025-07-30 14:24 +0100
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-30 09:55 -0400
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-07-30 13:44 -0400
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-30 23:33 -0400
        Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-29 10:03 +0200
          Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-29 10:15 +0200
          Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-29 22:51 +0100
            Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-30 09:42 +0200
              Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-30 10:02 -0400
                Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-07-30 17:04 +0200
              Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-07-30 21:49 +0100
            Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-07-30 18:15 +0000
              Re: Creating new files of indeterminate sort? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-30 23:37 -0400

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