List alternative filetype but don't make it the default

Question

I have this is vifmrc:

filextype <text/plain> sensible-editor %f

This makes Enter default to open any plain text file in my sensible-editor.

Now, suppose the plain text file is a Python program. In that case, I would like :file to list python3 %f as an alternative so that I can easily execute it. I tried adding

filextype *.py python3 %f

That works, but python3 takes the place of sensible-editor as the default action, and that is irrespective of the statement being before or after the <text/plain> statement.

Is there any way to make the alternative command the 2nd option? Thank you!

Answer 1

Mime-type of Python files seems to be text/x-python, hence <text/plain> doesn't match it.

Comments

Very true, Xaizek, that solves the problem, thanks. However, there are other cases where the mime-type is still text/plain but it would be useful to register a new program in the :file dialog for a particular "extension", for example, Gnuplot for .dat files.

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In those cases the order will make difference. It didn't in this case because sets of files matched by two commands were disjoint.