Feature: Add action to open text files in the default text editor

[Lamparter]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

A button to the toolbar should be added to open text files (any file detected as containing standard format text) in the default editor - this could either be a setting or just automatically select the default editor for text on the user's computer (the latter is probably better)
This would allow for easy opening of unidentified files and serves as an indicator to the file's contents. It would make it easier to open text files as some programs may register them (e.g. if I want to edit a Visual Studio Solution file it wouldn't be as easy as double clicking as doing so would open it in Visual Studio instead of a text editor).

Requirements

• Add helper to detect content of files
• Add action to automatically open file in default text editor

Files Version

3.8.5.0

Windows Version

10.0.22631.4391

Comments

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[yaira2]

It sounds like you're requesting to display 'open with' in the toolbar, can you confirm?

[Lamparter]

It sounds like you're requesting to display 'open with' in the toolbar, can you confirm?

Essentially, but it would open with the default text editor in one click rather then a prompt.

[0x5bfa]

Why not set it as the always open option.

[yaira2]

I can see this being a split button where the main button is 'open' and the drop down section displays the other options.

[Lamparter]

Let's discuss this on Discord

My point was mainly about opening text files that would open somewhere else e.g. XAML, C#, SLN or .*proj (all would open in visual studio) inside the default text editor rather than associated app

[yaira2]

After some discussion, we've determined that the underlying use case can be achieved by setting a custom argument for 'open with' (see #15141). However, adding a built-in action can simplify things, ensuring that the action always uses the default text editor, even if the user changes it in the future. In contrast, if the user sets a custom argument, they would have to update it manually.