On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Gerald Wilson wrote:


It still doesn't negate my original gripe. OS X ships without a simple graphical text editor capable of openly understanding the difference between Mac and UNIX text-files.

It does. TextEdit.

There is a difference between "I can't do this" and "Nobody can do this"

I know for a fact that I edited configuration files using textedit in 10.2. No problems.

YOU having an issue where TextEdit isn't working correctly does not translate into "Apple didn't even bother to test it."

I would start with deleting Textedit's prefs, and trying again.

Try it as a different, stock user, see if the issue is repeatable.

Right now, admittedly in 10.4 (because I didn't feel like dragging out and hooking up the old beige 10.2 box under my desk), I just edited a unix-style file (from /usr/local/share/misc) saved it and it had unix line endings afterwards.

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