Re: Mac OS X text editor

Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> BW <boneywasawarriorvayayixSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm helping a friend of mine via email to fix simple html code. As he is
>>using a Mac OS X based laptop I don't know which text editor comes in it
>>by default in order to ask him to edit the pages. He sent me one file
>>after editing and seeing the contents of the file I realized that he
>>saved it as an rtf file!
>>
>>Which text editor comes installed in Mac OS X? Is there any? If there is
>>none (I would be surprised), which text editor do Mac users use for
>>simple text editing (no, not word processing).
>
>
> It's Textedit, which saves as RTF by default. Once you change that it's
> quite usablel for basic editing. Another nice, straight and free
> editor is Smultron: http://smultron.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> Jochem
>

Thanks all for the advice. I think my friend used Textedit and saved in
rtf format. I will ask him to set it to save in text mode. I also
checked out smultron but will wait and let him learn the basics first
and then ask him to install.

For emacs (and maybe vim), my friend will not feel easy using them and
he is a total newbee. I use Linux and a couple of instances of emacs and
vim are always open but I don't want to kill my friend by advising him
to use any of them ;)

Thanks again,
/kd
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