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Plain text in Panther's TextEdit
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Calgary, Canada
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While I appreciate TextEdit's new ability to open and save Word files (until the next MS release, at least), I find I can't open, edit, and save, say, HTML files as plain text. Maybe I'm an oddball, but I liked always having the ability to pull open *any* file as raw text. Is there a way to manage this in Panther (other than buying BBEdit full version)? Thanks,.
Fraser
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: CO
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Command-Shift-T will toggle a doc back and forth between rtf and txt. (see Format menu)
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Calgary, Canada
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Thanks for the suggestion. Command-T has been my friend for a long time to strip the formatting from styled text. In this case, though, I'd like to open files in all their gory, texty detail for viewing and editing: in the HTML example, TextEdit will now only display the file as formatted HTML rather than the raw text markup. Command-T destroys all the underlying (or embedded) markup. I used to use TextEdit for all kinds of things, such as exposing the EXIF headers in JPEG files, fixing PostScript errors ...even viewing the guts of emailed viruses (scripts)!
Any other thoughts?
Thanks,
Fraser
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: In a gadda da vida.
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Go to the prefs. then turn on 'Ignore Rich Text in HTML Files', that should do it.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2003
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DOH! Thank you! There it was right in front of me all along :-) I couldn't figure out why Apple would hobble such a versatile little program....
Cheers,
Fraser
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: In a gadda da vida.
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Originally posted by waitingfor970:
DOH! Thank you! There it was right in front of me all along :-) I couldn't figure out why Apple would hobble such a versatile little program....
Cheers,
Fraser
No probs, took me a while too, to figure it out.
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