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I am running PSPad (a Windows programming editor) on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) using Wine 1.1.35.

I want to associate various file extensions (.php, .js, .html) with PSPad.exe.

Finder does not allow this association. I can only associate file types with $.app items in Applications.

How do I get Mac OS X to pass a file to Wine/PSPad when I double click it in Finder?

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You need to create an AppleScript (or other Mac executable) that wraps PSPad.exe and Wine, which you can then associate in the Finder with those file types. See http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/FAQs#head-8ce99bcac8d68bfcc6f7c58895110da202927611 for some instructions on doing that.

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Thanks Jon -- tried this and while it does create an app which can be associated with file types, it fails to open a file (filename.php) in the editor when double clicking on filename.php. I've given up trying to get this to work and switched to jEdit. – Damion Hankejh Apr 6 '10 at 17:32
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I am not sure if it would work, but you could create a symbolic link called whatever.app and have that link to the PSPad.exe file.

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