Re: How do mac users create a blank text file where you want it?

From	dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.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	2015-04-20 18:08 +1000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<do_ray_me-60842F.18084620042015@aioe.org> (permalink)
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In article <alpine.OSX.2.20.1504192302500.57809@mako.ath.cx>,
 David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:

Just btw mind you, your posts have always reminded me of flashing neon 
signs in glitzy metro areas, all the extra irrelevant signage that 
appears in my newsreader! 

> On Monday, 20 April 2015 13:52 +1000, 
>  in article <do_ray_me-0B0122.13525720042015@aioe.org>, 
>  dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <alpine.OSX.2.20.1504192135570.57809@mako.ath.cx>,
> >  David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> >> The easiest way I can come up with, to create a new text file, in 
> >> the directory of your choice, is via Terminal application, found in 
> >> /Applications/Utilities/.  To create the file, type
> 
> >>     touch /full/path/to/file.txt
> 
> > That's the easiest way eh on a Mac? Did you have a common-sense 
> > bypass at some stage?
> 
> Criticize all you like, but I've yet to see anyone else offer a one 
> step, or even two step solution.  ;)
>

It's a one or two step solution in my Text-Edit. Just click the 
dropdown item in the format menu when beginning.

> The solution Adam appears to have ended up using, TextEdit.app, 
> required many, not necessarily intuitive steps.  IIRC, I'm the only 
> person to point out that his specific request for ASCII encoding 
> required changing yet another default, as TextEdit defaults to UTF-8 
> (good), but ASCII isn't even among the default choices available, in 
> the application's Save as dialog.
> 
> Of course, I understand that he should have been asking about plain 
> text, rather than a quite specific ASCII text encoding, as these are 
> different concepts.
>

OK. 

> Do you have a problem with a simple, quite straight forward way of 
> creating an empty text file, as requested.  

No, I don't have a problem but it feels complicated to ask a windoze 
bloke who in turn is helping to show a Mac user (who ipso facto is 
likely a bit of a novice) to create a text file... 

> After it's been created, 
> double-clicking on that file will, by default, open as a plain text 
> file, in TextEdit, for editing.
> 
> (Here, it will open in BBEdit 11.0.3, as it is configured as _my_ 
> default GUI text editor.  Rich text files still open in TextEdit, by 
> default.)

Your way is interesting and beautiful and I am sending you two 
kangaroos for you to kill and eat, the meat is very healthy and lean. 
You need to skill up to cook it right, it's a big mistake to overcook 
it as steak.

-- 
dorayme

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