Re: Apple hiring $MS programmers?

In article <slrnfsdpfm.h88.foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ian Gregory <foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The first option in the "New Document" tab is to choose
"Rich text" or "Plain text" via a pair of radio buttons.

But the initial setting is "Rich Text" right? So to make it obvious
how to save a new doument as .txt you have to customise the app
by changing a preference - otherwise you need to know about the
Format>Make Plain Text thing.


But (speaking for myself, not the OP), since I create nearly all of my
*new* TextEdit documents in .rtf format (TextEdit is my primary word
processor *and* plain text editor), I *want* this default setting to
remain as RTF.

And in addition, I've set things up so that incoming Word documents
(attachments, etc) auto-open not in Word, but in TextEdit, in RTF format
(this handles almost all Word docs I'm unfortunate enough to receive).

And then, I occasionally want to save one or another of these RTF
documents, coming from either source, in plain text form for one purpose
or another.

Word itself can immediately Save As .doc or .rtf files in two different
versions of plain text format; in fact Adobe Acrobat can "Save As" PDF
files converted down to two types of plain text format.

So for God's sake, why can't a widely used, basic, near universal Mac
app like TextEdit have this trivial amenity? -- along with all the
other trivial and not so trivial improvements it so badly needs?
.

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