Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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So I'm having a hard time finding a basic text editor that will let me save the file with what ever extension I want. I want to be able to open up a .command file and not have formatting crap thrown in. I'm kinda looking for something like vi without having to open Terminal. There are so many things that I want to be able to do a quick edit that opening the file in DreamWeaver seems overkill.
So what's a good (free if possible) basic text editor that doesn't care what extension you give it? Bonus if there is a Mac App store link though I don't care that much. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Though, I've been using Sublime Text 2 a lot lately (not free, but just nagware for now). The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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I hear good things about Text Wrangler. I sprung for BBEdit a while back and I've been very happy.
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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I love Text Wrangler. It's free, so give it a shot!
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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TextEdit adds formatting to my documents. This doesn't do well when writing scripts. Plus, if I open a plain document I can't just save it as plain text. Maybe I can and haven't figured it out, but why am I having to put that much effort into writing a plain text file/shell script? I did install MacVim and it works well.
I'll check out Sublime Text and Text Wrangler too. Thanks for the input guys. Edit: Hmmm..... so I was able to save as plain text and it had no formatting... with TextEdit. Maybe I missed something last time I tried. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Dark Cat of the Sith
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By default it's in RTF mode, which doesn't save unformatted texts, but can be switched to pure txt via menu or I believe cmd+shift+T.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Promise Land of Trustafarians
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MacVim with the Janus extensions.
https://github.com/carlhuda/janus Add in the vim-LaTeX extensions and you've got my environment for last 18 months. So lightweight but so much power. If you're using MacVim, somewhere out there is a far prettier icon. I found it awhile ago so I don't remember the source but it's a necessity IMO. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Also, you can change the default behavior in Preferences: New Document: Format: Plain Text. While you're in there, you might as well change the horrid default plain text font too. I use Menlo Regular 12 as the plain text font in Terminal and my various editors. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I've never been sold on Text Wrangler or BBEdit. Something about the look and feel always makes me think I'm stuck in a transitionary Carbon half-OS9-half-OSX app that doesn't feel like ever made the jump. I just tried the latest version and, yeah, a lot of things just feel "off" to me.
The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I've been using TextWrangler forever. Trying out TextMate now, though.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I love vim. Has an initial learning curve while you get comfortable with its different modes and keybindings, but after that it's fantastic. Pretty much the only text editor I bother with at this point.
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