Notes
“Open to View” vs “Open to Edit”
Some files can be opened in two perfectly valid ways: opened to be viewed and opened to be edited. The two big examples I can think of are images and HTML files. You either want to look at an image or you want to edit it in Acorn or whatever. You either want to load a webpage or you want to edit it.
Is there some easy way that I can tell OS X to open a file with a different program using some modifier key?
Here’s what I want: if I need to open index.html, I just open the file as normal (with Safari). If I need to edit index.html, I cmd-double-click it or something (with a keyboard-friendly option available too, of course) and it opens with TextMate. Does that kind of functionality exist? I know that you can right-click the file and go “Open With” and then select the application you want to open the file with, but, really, who has the time?
