Add Valid (not Default) File Extensions

Question

I sometimes want to open source code files in Pages, but the file extensions are grayed out (eg foo.c, foo.cpp, foo.rb, foo.haml.html, foo.css). (I usually do this to print out nicely formatted code snippets for meetings)
Of course I could make Pages the default program to open such files, but I'd much prefer to leave 'vim' as the default! What I'd like is to not have to rename the 'foo.haml.html' files to 'foo.txt' in order to get Pages to admit that it can open them. In other words, to add a dozen additional plain-text file extensions to the ones that Pages is willing to treat as plain text.
- Randy

Answer 1

If you change the extension name, you will just get an unusable file.
If I give trousers to my daughter I will not get a second son
The only acceptable changes are:
replace .pages by .template to get … you win, you will get a template
replace .pages by .zip to be able to expand the packed file if the document was a flatFile one.
Only Pages may read Pages document.
I replaced .pages by .piges just for see.
I got the alert claiming that there is no defined application to open file with such extension.
I was able to use the Get Info path to teach Pages to open this document but I didn't. No need to store garbage in the launchServices database.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 28 juillet 2010 23:15:43