Quick Look for files without extensions.

I have many files without extensions that quick look does not recognize as text files. Bash shell scripts generally do not use an extension, for example (they are identified by their first line). Similarly I have a lot of text file notes w/o a ".txt" extensions.
Is there any way to have quick look recognize these as text files? They currently have either text edit or textmate as their default "open with" app. I presume there is a config file of some sort for quick look that will let me default files with no extension to text files, but have not found it yet.

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Hello,
Right clicking and selecting open is exactly the answer to
the question you
asked about how to open files without an extension.
There are many young people and people just learning here, so
all questions
are answered.
How was anyone supposed to know you meant something else, and
that you
already knew the answer was to right click and select open?
You didn't mention DW was giving you errors until after 2
people gave the
answer to the question you asked.
The fact that DW is giving you an error message when you try
to open the
file is something else entirely.
So, if that's your actual question, can you expand on "DW
keeps giving me
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and help you?
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Tim
"magoo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gcr7s0$m9n$00$[email protected]..
> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>> Right click on the file and select Open.
>>
>>
>> "magoo" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
>> news:gcr39p$r7o$01$[email protected]..
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>>> is it possible to open files without
extension in DW?
>>>>
>>>> yes- but they will be treated as a plain
text file, they won't be
>>>> associated with any type of scripting type
so no code hints or code
>>>> coloring.
>>>
>>> That`s fine, so how does it work?
>
> Wow, what an ace you are. If it was that easy I would
not have bothered
> posting here ...
>
> --
> Regards
> magoo

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