On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 Squall Lionheart wrote: > > When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New > Text File...* the new file is > > not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. > > I wonder if that's to do with MIME types? With a space and a newline, the > file > is detected by "file" as ASCII text rather than "empty". A single newline > is > detected as "very short file (no magic)", so probably the space-newline > combo > is the shortest file that can be automatically detected as text. > > It might be handy to have the option to "Create New => Empty File" though, > although I don't think I've ever needed to do this outside a terminal > myself. > > Paul > I tried what Pete said and that fixed it. The template file is located at /usr/share/templates/.source/TextFile.txt and clearing the contents makes new files appear empty as expected. Thank you Squall
