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Is Mac Text Edit a Plain Text Editor???

by Kevin AKA Hubcap
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I just had some trouble formatting an htaccess file. To make a long story short I called my host's support and after the tech checked my htacess file I was asked if I used the Mac's text edit program (which I thought was a plain text editor).

Anyway it seems text edit inserted spurious code into the htaccess file.

Has anybody else experienced this and what is a good plain text editor for the mac??
#editor #mac #plain #text
  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Originally Posted by Kevin AKA Hubcap View Post

    Has anybody else experienced this and what is a good plain text editor for the mac??
    Was it in plain text mode or RTF? The default is RTF. You can change that in its preferences.

    If that's not it, I don't know. I haven't had any issues.
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  • Profile picture of the author AccountCache
    Originally Posted by Kevin AKA Hubcap View Post

    I just had some trouble formatting an htaccess file. To make a long story short I called my host's support and after the tech checked my htacess file I was asked if I used the Mac's text edit program (which I thought was a plain text editor).

    Anyway it seems text edit inserted spurious code into the htaccess file.

    Has anybody else experienced this and what is a good plain text editor for the mac??
    The default for TextEdit is Rich Text Format (rtf) but you can save as plain text. Under Format choose "Make Plain Text".

    Best free Mac plain text editor is TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software

    Hope this helps,

    Geoff
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin AKA Hubcap
      Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

      Was it in plain text mode or RTF? The default is RTF. You can change that in its preferences.

      If that's not it, I don't know. I haven't had any issues.
      Originally Posted by AccountCache View Post

      The default for TextEdit is Rich Text Format (rtf) but you can save as plain text. Under Format choose "Make Plain Text".

      Best free Mac plain text editor is TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software

      Hope this helps,

      Geoff
      Dan & Geoff,

      I had RTF set as the default...operator error.

      I use textedit all the time. I don't know if I accidentally switched it to RTF but I'm surprised it hasn't bitten me before.

      Anyway thanks for the assist.
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