On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Squall Lionheart wrote:

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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 have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify this behavior or can provide a link to a how to. My goal here is to simply create an empty file just like if you used *touch newfile.txt*.

Looks like a case for https://bugs.kde.org.

If it comes down to it being a bug, I'll file a report. Just want to make sure it's not just a template somewhere first.

/usr/share/templates/TextFile.desktop will let you configure it. You can point the URL variable to your desired template file. Pete.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:

On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 Squall Lionheart wrote:

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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