Re: [irsg] how to upload minutes in markdown format?

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

> On 3/08/2021, at 7:49 AM, Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Dropping the list for a moment.
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>> Even so, when the extension is set to .md Finder Get Info (CMD-I) reports the Kind:Document, whereas it reports .txt as Kind:text.
>> (AFAICT MacOS doesn't report literal mime type. Do browsers derive mime type from Kind?)
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> Using firefox's developer tools -> Networking view into what's sent, my system uploads as follows:
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>> -----------------------------21552262633498723647489224942
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="stir.md"
>> Content-Type: text/markdown
> Finder reports the given file as Kind: Markdown Text (though if I associate it with other editors, it may say Markdown Document, but the Content-Type the browsers choose to use later remains the same.
> 
> Do you have XCode installed? If so, does what finder shows you change away from simply Type: Document to Type: Markdown (mumble) if you tell it to open all files of that type with XCode?

Just tested this.  If XCode is set at the default for .md files then MacOS reports them as "Kind: Markdown Document".  If I set SublimeText, Atom or Bear as the default then it is "Kind: Markdown Text".

Jay 


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