Sublime Text 3 - How to default to Text filetype

[bkgrrl00]

I am using SublimeText 3 and I would like new files to be created in plain text format (i.e. default to a .TXT extension when they are saved).

I followed the instructions I found here.

I created a new file called "default_file_type.sublime-settings" and placed it in the "Packages/User" directory. The file had the following content:

{ "default_new_file_syntax": "Packages/Text/Plain_text.tmLanguage",
"use_current_file_syntax": false }

I also unzipped the "Text.sublime-package" file, created a new directory called "Text", and renamed the "Packages/Text/Plain text.tmLanguage" file to "Packages/Text/Plain_text.tmLanguage"

When I open SublimeText, I get an error:
Error loading syntax file "Packages/Text/Plain_text.tmLanguage": Unable to load Packages/Text/Plain_text.tmLanguage

When I save a new file, it does not save in .TXT format.

Where did I go wrong?

[MohnJadden7]

I am also having this issue and have yet to find a solution. Were you ever able to figure it out?

[bkgrrl00]

I never found a solution to this problem, and ended up switching to Notepad++ instead. Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>

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[shawnzhsh]

should be: (the path :: no Text :::

{ "default_new_file_syntax": "Packages/Plain_text.tmLanguage",
"use_current_file_syntax": false }

[Coyote21]

I'm having exact same issues, want default to be PlainText and Default File Extension to be .txt.

This needs updated (Sublime 4) or better instructions, current instructions do not make sense, at least not to dummies like me.

Tried above suggestion by shawnzhsh, but now I get error message about missing file "Packages/Plain_text.tmLanguage" everytime I open Sublime Text.

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

On Windows 10 [edit: and Sublime Text version _4_199; I can move this report if necessary], I tried to implement shawnzhsh's suggestion above, which I take to be to use

{
	"default_new_file_syntax": "Packages/Plain_text.tmLanguage",
	"use_current_file_syntax": false
}

The result is this:

And indeed I appear to lack any file called 'Plain_text.tmLanguage' (and removing the underscore did not help).

Also: this page, and the README, would do well to say that the settings file is to be in the standard (JSON?) Sublime syntax.

EDIT: when I commented out the two business lines within the preferences file (commenting out the whole file, including the curly-wurlies, produced an error), new files seemed to have syntax set to plain text and when I went to save the file no extension is suggested. Those things suggest that the DefaultFileType package is not working at all.