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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How do mac users create a blank text file where you want it?
Date: 20 Apr 2015 02:30:22 GMT
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On 2015-04-20, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <cpj69jF5p92U4@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> > it's a dumb design to put it there, but that's what it is.
>> 
>> Doesn't seem very dumb to me. It's a design choice that TextEdit creates
>> rich text documents by default. Providing both a default setting in
>> preferences along with a menu command (and key binding) to change the
>> format at will seems fine to me.
>
> there should be an option at the time of saving.

I agree. I just don't agree that allowing you to set the default
document type in preferences is dumb.

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