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TextEdit : Removing default text from untitled file
I tried to copy a very large text into an untitled TextEdit file. Now TextEdit starts showing progress wheel, whenever I try to edit or save the untitled file. I can get rid of the wheel only by force ...
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How do you create a Table of Contents in TextEdit?
Is this functionality available for TextEdit? I recently decided I don't want to use the buggy Mac Word 2011 and use TextEdit exclusively. But, when I open my old .doc files the table of contents ...
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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 ...
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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"
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Is there a way to modify the default indents and tabs in OSX's Text Edit app?
Tab stops and indents can be modified on an individual document basis by clicking/dragging within the ruler area, but this must be done for every file.
Is there a way to modify the default indents ...
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HTML file saved from TextEdit shown as source code in the browser
For some reason, when I type HTML into TextEdit and save it as an HTML document, and I load it, I see all the text, unformatted, including the tags. How would I fix this?
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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 ...
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TextEdit not caring about hard links? [duplicate]
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 ...
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What is a good free lightweight code editor for Mac OS X? [closed]
I'm looking for an equivalent to Notepad2 for OS X. I already use TextMate for heavy projects, but want something that can load quickly and essentially replace TextEdit.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Notepad and Textedit exchange
I use both W7 and Mac OSX on several machines, with sugarsync to sync files and directories.
So far no problem.
However txt files created by W7 Notepad are displayed differently with Mac TextEdit.
And ...
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Why can't I see picture in RTF opened with TextEdit? [closed]
Why can't I see picture in RTF opened with TextEdit?
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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 ...
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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.
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Opening iWork Pages documents in Textedit
I have a Pages (iWork '08) document I'd like to work on on my laptop, but my laptop doesn't have iWork. When I try to open the document, it turns out to actually be a folder with several things ...
