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Text editor

BrianD · 2011-09-27 22:51:34

Does Mac come with a basic text editor with the same functionality as Notepad or text pad in Windows. It should have no formatting whatsoever. I have found a textedit when I searched but unfortunately this formats the text. I'm copying and pasting into a web CMS and the copied text must have no formatting attached.

27-09-2011 10:51PM

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BrianD

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Does Mac come with a basic text editor with the same functionality as Notepad or text pad in Windows. It should have no formatting whatsoever.

I have found a textedit when I searched but unfortunately this formats the text.

I'm copying and pasting into a web CMS and the copied text must have no formatting attached.

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#2 27-09-2011 10:52PM

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TextEdit does RTF by default, but Format > Make Plaintext will have it behave the same as Notepad.

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#3 29-09-2011 06:39AM

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Excellent free text editor from barebones software called TextWrangler

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#4 29-09-2011 07:19AM

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Not so free one but good is Ultraedit.

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#5 29-09-2011 02:07PM

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Rulmeq wrote: »

Excellent free text editor from barebones software called TextWrangler

I agree. Especially good for coding etc

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#6 01-10-2011 05:25PM

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Ye, I read this as a programming thing. But the op seems to just want a plain text editor.

(fraise and textmate for programming are excellent)

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#7 04-10-2011 12:47PM

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vi

oh, yes :cool:

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