They free you from the hassle of styles and fonts and let you focus on what you write. Instead of working around a complex app that wants to do more than you need, a text editor lets you focus on writing text. Text editors were created as tools for developers, people who write code, who need certain features, such as syntax coloring different types of code show up in different colors , regular spacing and indents, and more.
The granddaddy of Mac text editors is BBedit , and this app is one of the most powerful tools for this type of text. But if you just want a blank page to type your text, there are many excellent Mac apps.
I use a text editor for much of my writing including this article. If I do need formatting—bold, italic, etc. I can then paste the text into a web page, send it by email, or convert the file to HTML if necessary. Like many text editors, it handles Markdown formatting, offering a preview view so you can see how your text will look with bold, italics, lists, and more. The rest of the text shows up in a light gray.
And, while it only offers one font, I love the the specially designed Nitti Sans typeface it uses. I wish I could use that font in other apps…. This lets you organize files and access them easily. Click Preferences. Change the options in the new window. Once all changes are made, close the Preferences window. The preferences for TextEdit are available from the Menu bar.
The preferences panel for when you create new documents. The rich text and plain text option is right at the top. This does not affect plain text files, which do not save this information. Checking the spelling as you type. Checking the grammar alongside spelling.
Automatic spelling correction. Displaying the ruler. Enabling Data Detectors, which automatically detects dates, times, and contact information. Enabling smart quotes, in automatically substituting curly quotation marks for straight marks. Enabling smart dashes, where an em dash is changed to a double-hyphen automatically.
Setting smart quotes and dashes to be applied to rich text documents only, and not plain text files. Smart links will automatically convert website addresses to clickable links in rich text documents.
Text replacement will automatically use changes in the main macOS Text Replacement options to change the document. When Opening a File. If unselected, TextEdit will do its best to format the text in the Rich text view.
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By Andrew O'Hara 5 hours ago. By William Gallagher 6 hours ago. By Amber Neely 7 hours ago. By Wesley Hilliard 8 hours ago. New Mac users may not know about TextEdit, a simple but deep text editing and word processing tool that comes with your Mac. You can use TextEdit to create documents in cases when a full word processor like Pages or Microsoft Word isn't necessary. TextEdit has two modes: plain text and rich text.
You can use the first for writing, notes and coding. You can use the second for word processing. TextEdit also allows you to open Microsoft Word documents which is useful if you are sent one but haven't bought Word. Related Video Tutorials: No related posts.
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