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Meanwhile TextEdit on Mac always rendered HTML. Which seems useless until you realize it can also edit and save as HTML. So there's casually a wysiwyg web edito

Meanwhile TextEdit on Mac always rendered HTML. Which seems useless until you realize it can also edit and save as HTML. So there's casually a wysiwyg web editor built into macOS that idk how many people use.

sysguest 8mo ago
idk maybe TextEdit DOES have some rce not discovered yet? maybe we should separate "real origianl text-only editor" from "fancy text editor"? windows already got wordpad... why even lay a finger on textpad?
- edp 8mo ago
  Windows had wordpad but it was discontinued two years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad
  - sysguest 8mo ago
    wat????? wtf why?????????
    - drw85 8mo ago
      So you subscribe to the Microsoft CoPilot 365 App or whatever it's called now.
      - sysguest 8mo ago
        hmm... ok maybe that's reasonable charge extra premium for a "secure vanilla-text™ pure unadulterated wysiwyg editor" experience should be a thing for the "security-minded" enterprises
LtWorf 8mo ago
If it also allowed me to type what I want instead of changing every single word due to "spell check" it would actually be a useful tool!
- pferde 8mo ago
  Spell check is fine - highlight misspelled words, offer corrections when asked. What's incredibly harmful is autocorrect, as it slowly but surely causes vast majority of computer users to become partly illiterate. And nobody gives a damn, because hey, we're efficiently saving time!
  - LtWorf 8mo ago
    It didn't cause me to become illiterate, it caused me to give up using it and find something else since it was "correcting" a lot of things that were correct to begin with, and going back to re-change them became a chore in the only 10 minutes I used it.
    - zadikian 8mo ago
      TextEdit prefs (not systemwide prefs) have easy checkboxes to disable all that, also the smart quotes. Also gotta make it default to plain text. The reason I dropped it was cause of a bug where I'd highlight text, copy, and it's actually copy the wrong block of text. Idk the trigger but seems related to larger files.
zadikian 8mo ago
Ok wysiwyg web editor is maybe overselling it. You can make a text-only page in it. Still neat.

sysguest 8mo ago

idk maybe TextEdit DOES have some rce not discovered yet? maybe we should separate "real origianl text-only editor" from "fancy text editor"? windows already got wordpad... why even lay a finger on textpad?

edp 8mo ago
Windows had wordpad but it was discontinued two years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad
- sysguest 8mo ago
  wat????? wtf why?????????
  - drw85 8mo ago
    So you subscribe to the Microsoft CoPilot 365 App or whatever it's called now.
    - sysguest 8mo ago
      hmm... ok maybe that's reasonable charge extra premium for a "secure vanilla-text™ pure unadulterated wysiwyg editor" experience should be a thing for the "security-minded" enterprises

LtWorf 8mo ago

If it also allowed me to type what I want instead of changing every single word due to "spell check" it would actually be a useful tool!

pferde 8mo ago
Spell check is fine - highlight misspelled words, offer corrections when asked. What's incredibly harmful is autocorrect, as it slowly but surely causes vast majority of computer users to become partly illiterate. And nobody gives a damn, because hey, we're efficiently saving time!
- LtWorf 8mo ago
  It didn't cause me to become illiterate, it caused me to give up using it and find something else since it was "correcting" a lot of things that were correct to begin with, and going back to re-change them became a chore in the only 10 minutes I used it.
  - zadikian 8mo ago
    TextEdit prefs (not systemwide prefs) have easy checkboxes to disable all that, also the smart quotes. Also gotta make it default to plain text. The reason I dropped it was cause of a bug where I'd highlight text, copy, and it's actually copy the wrong block of text. Idk the trigger but seems related to larger files.

zadikian 8mo ago

Ok wysiwyg web editor is maybe overselling it. You can make a text-only page in it. Still neat.