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Text Editor Recommendations?

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qurlau

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Sep 15, 2003
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New York, NY
I recently switched from Windows 2000 to Mac OS X (Panther), and I was wondering if anyone knew of a simple text editor (ASCII-based). TextEdit did not allow me to save documents w/o the RTF extension, and so forth.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.
 
when you save in textedit.. click "save as" and then under plain text encoding click "customize encodings list' and you will see ASCII in there so just click that check box
 
i find bbedit lite to be a good general purpose text editor.

in case prev. poster's suggestion didn't work, you might give it a try.

Versiontracker
 
Originally posted by synthetickittie
when you save in textedit.. click "save as" and then under plain text encoding click "customize encodings list' and you will see ASCII in there so just click that check box
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I certainly don't see that under the version that came with Panther.

However, there is Make Plain Text under the format menu.
 
Originally posted by g808
i stand corrected. i know they discountinued BBEdit Lite, but didn't know it's on versiontracker. thanks!
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Any time!

You should be thanking some other poster on these forums though, who let it out recently that it was still on VT. But I can't remember who..... shame on me :p
 
It is still accessible on BareBones' site... you just have to look for it a bit. Since the versiontracker is still up, I won't post the url here :)
 
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