Posted by patrick j on 11/23/06 18:00

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> In his defense, he had yet to contemplate such a stupid thing would
> happen.

I think it is very reasonable to expect an application called TextEdit
to behave like a "text editor" :)

I was quite surprised when I discovered that it will open .html files
displaying the HTML as if it were a browser window myself.

Like you I use BBEdit for actual "text editing" on the Mac.

I've now changed the preferences on TextEdit so that it will "ignore
rich text commands in HTML files" myself and I'm grateful to you for
pointing this out.

Personally I think that TextEdit is not a very good name for the
program which has a role analogous perhaps to WordPad on the PC, but
not Notepad.

--
Patrick
Brighton, UK

<http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>

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