[arch-general] Content of new text file

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 07/14/2011 06:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann 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.

> Paul

Ah, that makes a lot of sense now.  Thanks for the info.

DR