Pages - Default Text Editor?

How can I make Pages my default text editor?

Hi DennisG,
Thank you for the link. Now I have it, small file download. Yes it does look interesting, it will be fun to play around with getting to know it.
On a side note to both you and Yvan: Back in my Windows days I did MS Office tech support. That caused me to became quite a Word junky creating specialty docs, brochures, and the like. With the arrival of Pages rarely do I use Word, only when someone needs assistance with a Word doc. I've moved to Pages, for what I do it's so much better than Word 2004 (don't have 2008).
Some friends using AW want help with their AW thingys, so to assist them I reinstalled AW. Wow, I question why for years I hadn't used it: now I use AW more than Pages and Numbers. It amazes me how fast AW is, plus I like the DB as well. Yes the word processor and spreadsheet aren't as graphical as Numbers and Pages however, the print outs are very good, and both modules do numerous things Pages and Numbers yet cannot do.
The more I use AW the more I understand why folks wished Apple, rather than start iWork from scratch, ported AW to iWork. Let's hope the next version of iWork will catch up to AW becoming the cats meow perhaps.
Again thank you for the Bean link.
Sincerely,
RicD
Sincerely,
RicD

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I work in Terminal a lot and often encounter files that were sent to me by someone using Linux and have no type, creator or extension. I want these to open in BBedit not TextEdit.
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Trilby wrote:
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hi,
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