From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Epiphany/1.6.5 Description of problem: Nautilus should display a text file by default unless the first line contains a shebang. Example: I have a directory full of files, most of them are text files. Some have .txt extensions, some do not. Some are executable some are not. As a gui user, when I double-click on one of these text files, it should open in my text editor. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: x Additional info:
This is a known issue upstream, filed as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313023 Closing this UPSTREAM, as all non-packaging development like this happens upstream.