Posted by Nikita the Spider on 11/25/06 02:31

In article <0001HW.C18B96C003191757B019F94F@News.Individual.Net>,
patrick j <patrick@jamesnews.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

> Nikita the Spider wrote:
>
> > I'm on 10.3.9; sorry if I misled you. IMHO the behavior you describe
> > sounds pretty annoying for a text editor. If I want to edit text, it's
> > only logical that I'd turn to something called "TextEdit" to do so,
>
> Yes it does seem to make sense I do feel "TextEdit" is rather a bad
> name for the application. Leonard Blaisdell has spotted that there is a
> preference for changing this behaviour. If "Ignore Rich Text commands
> in HTML files" is checked then TextEdit will display the HTML for
> editing, otherwise it will try to display the page like a web-browser.

Which also exists in 10.3.9, but I apparently switched it off so long
ago that I forgot it existed. Apologies for the mistake, and thanks to
Leonard for pointing it out. I also use BBEdit and was willing to pay
for it because I thought TextWrangler was nifty.

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Philip
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