Overly Agressive Restrictions About File Type

[lgarron]

The first thing I tried to open in MacDown.app was my .zshrc, which is actually literate zsh: https://github.com/lgarron/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.zshrc

1. First, I tried to open a convenience symlink to it called zshrc.md:
   
2. Then I tried opening the symlink located at ~/.zshrc. Same error.
3. Then I tried opening the target of the symlinks: the file named .zshrc in my source-controlled dotfiles. Same error.
4. Then I tried copying. .zshrc and renaming it to zshrc.md. Different error. We're making progress!
   
5. Renamed zshrc.md to zshrc.markdown. It finally works.

This was even more aggravating for me, because my usual way of following symlinks to their targets isn't working.
No other program has ever had a problem with any of these.

[uranusjr]

OS X uses UTI to identify file formats, and the extension is only a hint. I missed a UTI import in the 0.1 release, so MacDown wasn’t able to map .md extensions to the Markdown UTI automatically. The reason why .markdown works is probably because another editor (Mou?) recognised it and mapped the UTI instead. With the UTI mapped MacDown can then open the file.

The UTI import has been fixed in 5e2e188, which will be included in the next release. I’m closing this right now, but please feel free to reopen it if you experience any similar problems in the future.

Thanks a lot.