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From: Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How do mac users create a blank text file where you want it?
Date: 20 Apr 2015 09:44:46 GMT
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On 2015-04-20, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <mh27ks$i5o$40@news.albasani.net>, Adam H. Kerman
><ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote in message
>>1m36u6u.hoc9xyqd2n2rNMon, 20 Apr 2015 18:32:15 +1200empson@actrix.gen.nz
>>
>>> It isn't my default text editor - I rarely use TextEdit for plain text
>>> documents as I prefer much more powerful software like TextWrangler (for
>>> features such as regular expression searches).
>>
>>Over the years, I have been on plenty of systems, from IBM mainframes to 
>>PDP 11s to a variety of DEC and Masscomp and Sun systems, to Windows, 
>>Apple and Linux boxes more recently and even to embedded systems like 
>>routers and microcontrollers.
>>
>>One thing I've learned is that you can *only* always rely on the 
>>*default* text editor being there.
>
> Oh really? I've always had difficulty finding a text editor on a
> Windows machine.

I can only assume you're being pedantic about Notepad.


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