[suso]

By default, TextEdit is the editor that you get when you double-click on the Mac OS-X Finder on any file that has no extension. I'd like BBEdit to have this role instead of TextEdit.
I know how to make all files of a given extension use any particular editor by default: From the Finder, I would go: File-GetInfo-OpenWith, and then select the editor, and finally click on "Select All". After that, any time I double-click on a file with that extension, the desired editor will be chosen.
The problem is, how can I set a particular program (say, BBEdit) to be the default editor for files that HAVE NO EXTENSION? The above approach does not seem to work. I once read somewhere how to do this (I think it was on MacWorld, but I have not been able to locate the actual article again, even after going page by page through one year's worth of issues!), and on one of my computers I seem to have implemented it successfully. But I have forgotten how I did it!
Can anyone help me?

[h00ligan]

why don't the files have an extension or type? Are you moving them from a network? If so use afp instead of cifs or smb. Otherwise, pony up and get a better finder renamer and do them all in one fell swoop. What happens if you try to set the typpe and creator from the info box? Usually you can type all from there.

[suso]

HOOligan:
The files were created with the unix command "touch filename". Later, data were added to the contents of the files by means of fortran and c programs. I do want to keep these text files without extensions. And I know that it is possible to do what I am trying to do, because I have two Macs that ARE doing this already; I just can't remember how I got them to do it!