Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge 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 10:03:23 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <190420152050160494%nospam@nospam.invalid> <190420151804205941%michelle@michelle.org> <190420152135434139%nospam@nospam.invalid> <190420151842061874%michelle@michelle.org> <190420152222191866%nospam@nospam.invalid> <190420152233070791%nospam@nospam.invalid> <190420152246500172%nospam@nospam.invalid> <190420152037478396%michelle@michelle.org> <1m36u6u.hoc9xyqd2n2rN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <200420151025329149%timstreater@greenbee.net> <200420151052527565%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net mpn5l3EF5AWSZm/YBNOlOAKlW44Q2+w8h3D/vfSkQKISbZH45d Cancel-Lock: sha1:10tI2WYTLEMFccTUqKwWwug3VUo= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:73701 comp.sys.mac.apps:29195 On 2015-04-20, Tim Streater wrote: > In article , Huge > wrote: > >>On 2015-04-20, Tim Streater wrote: >>> In article , Adam H. Kerman >>> 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. > > Probably, yes. At least on Linux I can run vi in a Terminal (or > whatever it's called) window, and I can dig out my trusty Ultrix cheat > card to remind me what the commands do. On OS X of course the first > thing I do is install TextWrangler. But even there I can run vi if I > happen to be working in a Terminal window at that point. Notepad is a desperately poor text editor, but it does, at least, edit text and recent Windows systems always have it. I usually install Notepad++, which works well. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 37th day of Discord in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.