On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@gmail.com>wrote:
On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 Squall Lionheart wrote:
When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New > Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character.
I wonder if that's to do with MIME types? With a space and a newline, the file is detected by "file" as ASCII text rather than "empty". A single newline is detected as "very short file (no magic)", so probably the space-newline combo is the shortest file that can be automatically detected as text.
It might be handy to have the option to "Create New => Empty File" though, although I don't think I've ever needed to do this outside a terminal myself.
Paul
I tried what Pete said and that fixed it. The template file is located at /usr/share/templates/.source/TextFile.txt and clearing the contents makes new files appear empty as expected. Thank you Squall