TextEdit is an Apple text editing application available on OS X. It supports Rich Text (.rtf) and plain text (.txt) formats.
TextEdit is an Apple text editing application available on OS X. It supports Rich Text (.rtf) and plain text (.txt) formats.
Questions tagged [textedit]
32 questions
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How to disable line wrap in TextEdit
I can not find a settings in TextEdit to disable line wrap. I have found only wrap to page/window.
Željko Filipin
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Change tab spacing in TextEdit on OS X
How do you change the tab spacing for TextEdit? The default is too big (8 spaces, I think).
I'm using OS X Mavericks.
Zach Smith
- 346
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How do I change the file extension with TextEdit on osx?
I am teaching Python to the people I work with, and we are all mac users. I would like to be able to create files like hello.py or data.csv.
However, I do not see an option in TextEdit to save as a "plain text no-frills no-formatting non-rtf" file.…
rascher
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Hard link not works under Mac OS X in GUI mode
I faced a little strange behavior, while using hard links.
From Terminal, I create a text file 1.txt and a hard link "to this file"
nano 1.txt
mkdir dir
ln 1.txt ./dir/
I check the resulting hard link and see that its contents are the same as of…
AntonAL
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How to make Mac OS X "find" feature local to application window
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5
Sometimes I open up multiple windows of TextEdit and multiple tabs on Chrome and use the Cmd-f to find certain text. In each window, I'm looking for different texts. However, when I switch between the windows, the search…
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Preserve indention converting RTF to TXT on OS X
I made a multi-level bulleted list in TextEdit that looks something like:
foo
bar
stuff
things
However, when I try to convert it to text (via cmd-shift-T, copy and paste, or textutil), the result looks more like:
foo
bar
stuff
things
How…
Dan
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SRT Subtitles - issue with line breaks
I've manually created an SRT file through textEdit.
I used all the right formatting and it played well on VLC.
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00:04:23,020 --> 00:04:24,230
- Nah, I'm not hungry.
21
00:04:24,230 --> 00:04:26,230
- How was the meeting?
22
00:04:26,230 -->…
toms
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Insert bullets in TextEdit on Mac OS X
i see this question : Insert bullets in Micosoft Notepad
so, i interested to know "shortkey to insert 'bullet' character in TextEdit"
Hector
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Getting Textedit to save to an arbitrary directory on my Mac
When I save a file from textedit, it typically gives me a very limited list of directories I can save it in. A few standard places like Documents, Downloads, and so on, plus five "recent places."
Is there a way to get it to let me browse to an…
William Jockusch
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On a Mac, how do you start TextEdit or TextMate from a shell? (bash)
I tried and the only way seemed like typing in
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
in a bash shell. But even when I close the application, it is not considered an exit. I need to go to the app icon on the dock and click "Quit" so…
nonopolarity
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MacOS automatically saves changes when closing TextEdit
If I don't intentionally save a document in TextEdit, I expect it to be left as is. That is, I expect a changed document to prompt "Do you want to save?" so that I can choose Delete. This means you can accidentally save an unwanted version of a…
MountainMan
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Very, *very* strange characters on Mac OS X after copy-paste from PDF
I did a copy-paste from a PDF, the text that should have been pasted is:
(\<(/?[^\>]+)\>)
But, instead, I get some VERY strange characters. Demonstrated in the following screenshot:
The screenshot was taken from TextEdit, zoomed in a lot.
Does…
Wuffers
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TextEdit not caring about hard links?
Possible Duplicate:
Hard link not works under Mac OS X in GUI mode
I did a little experiment. First I ran the following in a Terminal:
mkdir test
cd test
echo "A" > a
echo "B" > b
ln a.txt c
Now a and c have the same content, A, and the same…
Svish
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How to “Save As” a document in macOS? I can only “Save” the document
I am new to macOS computers. I am use to using Notepad on a Windows PC. I make my own invoice using Notepad.
First I make what I call a header for specific clients with just the info needed to keep from repeating things on a weekly basis.
When I…
Kenneth
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How to add extra text encodings to TextEdit on Mac OS X?
When saving a file as in TextEdit on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), you can choose a text encoding for the file. There are a few options and then at the bottom “Customise Encodings List…”
However, the encoding I want to choose is not in the list, even…
mesqueeb
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