I am creating a new file either by using
in terminal: touch newfilename.someext
or
in nautilus: File > Create New Document > Empty Document
The file takes on the type "plain text document" and gets associated with the default text-editor. How can I turn-off these 2 actions?
The .somext is a new/unknown extension and I expect the system to show it as an unknown file type.
Edited August 10 2012:
I noticed that if you have a non-printing binary character in the file, then it will show as type "Unknown".