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To this day osx still doesn't ship with a true plaintext gui editor.

macinjosh 6y ago
applescript editor?
taejavu 6y ago
Not true, TextEdit is exactly this, it’s just not the default. One checkbox in preferences activates plaintext mode for all new files.
- dylan604 6y ago
  haha, after using OS X since the beginning, i have never even looked for this. after the first time of realizing it was rich text like WordPad and not a text editor Notepad, I never even attempted to use it for anything text related. better app options were available for pure text anyways. BBEdit was my gold standard in the way back days.
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monadic11 6y ago
Probably a quirk of english that I don't see as a native speaker, but I'd phrase this as a gui plaintext editor. Also, people not served by textedit are pretty niche.
- chc 6y ago
  I think both sound equally valid. One sort of expands to "a GUI editor for plain text" in my mind and the other is more like "a plain text editor with a GUI."
  - jrochkind1 6y ago
    "plaintext gui editor" sounds like you are editing GUIs... in plaintext? Maybe a plaintext markup language for GUI's... I guess that's what HTML is!
perryizgr8 6y ago
It also doesn't ship with a paint program. OSx has a lot of ground to cover before it can function as a decent desktop OS.
- dylan604 6y ago
  oh come on, how much more do you need than a crayon based color picker? ever set the date of your system to waaay into the future and then look at the crayon color picker? after providing that, what else could you possibly need?
  - na85 6y ago
    What does that do?
    - dylan604 6y ago
      just like a box of crayons. when they are new, all of the lables are crisp and clean, and the edges of the crayons are square/flat. after using the crayons, the tips become rounded, and you have to peel the labels back as the crayon wears down. so does the crayon color picker. at least it did in older versions of the OS. haven't looked at it in a reallly long time, as it was def a gimmick more than function
- minusf 6y ago
  preview's basic annotation functions cover most of what paint can do, or am i missing something?
  - perryizgr8 6y ago
    Preview annotations don't begin to scratch the surface of what paint can do. Look what some people can do in MS paint: https://www.techeblog.com/amazing-spider-man-ms-paint-drawing/ https://www.techeblog.com/amazing-spider-man-ms-paint-drawin... Most of us can't, but paint has all the tools, which is very helpful in many situations.

applescript editor?

Not true, TextEdit is exactly this, it’s just not the default. One checkbox in preferences activates plaintext mode for all new files.

dylan604 6y ago
haha, after using OS X since the beginning, i have never even looked for this. after the first time of realizing it was rich text like WordPad and not a text editor Notepad, I never even attempted to use it for anything text related. better app options were available for pure text anyways. BBEdit was my gold standard in the way back days.

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monadic11 6y ago

Probably a quirk of english that I don't see as a native speaker, but I'd phrase this as a gui plaintext editor. Also, people not served by textedit are pretty niche.

chc 6y ago
I think both sound equally valid. One sort of expands to "a GUI editor for plain text" in my mind and the other is more like "a plain text editor with a GUI."
- jrochkind1 6y ago
  "plaintext gui editor" sounds like you are editing GUIs... in plaintext? Maybe a plaintext markup language for GUI's... I guess that's what HTML is!

perryizgr8 6y ago

It also doesn't ship with a paint program. OSx has a lot of ground to cover before it can function as a decent desktop OS.

dylan604 6y ago
oh come on, how much more do you need than a crayon based color picker? ever set the date of your system to waaay into the future and then look at the crayon color picker? after providing that, what else could you possibly need?
- na85 6y ago
  What does that do?
  - dylan604 6y ago
    just like a box of crayons. when they are new, all of the lables are crisp and clean, and the edges of the crayons are square/flat. after using the crayons, the tips become rounded, and you have to peel the labels back as the crayon wears down. so does the crayon color picker. at least it did in older versions of the OS. haven't looked at it in a reallly long time, as it was def a gimmick more than function
minusf 6y ago
preview's basic annotation functions cover most of what paint can do, or am i missing something?
- perryizgr8 6y ago
  Preview annotations don't begin to scratch the surface of what paint can do. Look what some people can do in MS paint: https://www.techeblog.com/amazing-spider-man-ms-paint-drawing/ https://www.techeblog.com/amazing-spider-man-ms-paint-drawin... Most of us can't, but paint has all the tools, which is very helpful in many situations.