I clarify. I didn't say TextEdit doesn't work. I said Apple provided a
set of instructions about how to carry out a particular procedure and
that set of instructions doesn't work. The procedure hasn't been
tested. (Well it has now, of course, because I've tested it which is
how I know it doesn't work.) That's Not Very Good. It ain't helped by
the way TextEdit conceals what's going on with line endings. That's
what I mean by openly. If you feed TextEdit a LF-ended file and a
CR-ended file they look the same, and you can't tell them apart. Not
over helpful in the Mac OS X environment.
GWW
On 6 Feb 2006, at 23:41, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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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