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Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS). It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it
by Paperweight 7y ago
Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS).
It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it a workable plaintext editor. Apple should just delete its rich text functionality, now that they bundle a real word processor (Pages) with the OS.
- valleyer 7y agoIMO, you have to twiddle exactly one preference, exactly once, to make TextEdit a workable plaintext editor. In TextEdit -> Preferences..., select the "Plain text" radio button. New documents are created as plain text now.
- Paperweight 7y agoKind of, but to be safe you have to change 12 preferences from the defaults, IMO. New Document: Format: Plain Text (select) Options: Check spelling as you type (disable) Correct spelling automatically (disable) Smart copy/paste (disable) Smart quotes (disable) Smart dashes (disable) Text replacement (disable) Open and Save: When Opening a File: Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text (enable) Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text (enable) When Saving a File: Add ".txt" extension to plain text files (disable) Plain Text File Encoding: Opening files = Unicode (UTF-8) Saving files = Unicode (UTF-8)
- WhiteOwlLion 7y agoI got sick of textedit and installed open source atom