[colug-432] colug-432 Digest, Vol 94, Issue 9

Fri Jun 23 18:53:06 EDT 2017

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>    1. Text Editor (tom)
>    2. Re: Text Editor (Jeff Frontz)
>    3. Re: Text Editor (Rick Hornsby)
>    4. Re: Text Editor (Zach Villers)
>    5. Re: Text Editor (Rick Hornsby)
>    6. Re: Text Editor (Rick Hornsby)
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> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:27:57 -0500
> From: tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com>
> Subject: [colug-432] Text Editor
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> Anybody have one foot in the Mac world? I sent .txt from my Linux
> machine to a Mac user running OS Sierra. Does Sierra have a text editor?
> It does have a script editor, but I told him to leave that alone as he
> might break his system. I have 10.6.8 on an older MacBook. It has both a
> text editor and a script editor. The text editor is in utilities on it.
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> Tom
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> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:47:25 -0400
> From: Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Text Editor
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> TextEdit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit ) is the stock MacOS
> GUI-based text editor (it's been in /Applications since at least 10.5, if
> not before).  vi/vim and emacs (GNU's) are also standard (though they
> nominally require using the Terminal application (in
> /Application/Utilities)).
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> Have the Mac user double-click on the .txt file in the Finder; It Just
> Works.
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> Jeff
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> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:27 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Anybody have one foot in the Mac world? I sent .txt from my Linux
> > machine to a Mac user running OS Sierra. Does Sierra have a text editor?
> > It does have a script editor, but I told him to leave that alone as he
> > might break his system. I have 10.6.8 on an older MacBook. It has both a
> > text editor and a script editor. The text editor is in utilities on it.
> >
> > Tom
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> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:00:04 -0500
> From: Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Text Editor
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> > On Jun 22, 2017, at 16:47, Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > TextEdit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit ) is the stock MacOS
> GUI-based text editor (it's been in /Applications since at least 10.5, if
> not before).  vi/vim and emacs (GNU's) are also standard (though they
> nominally require using the Terminal application (in
> /Application/Utilities)).
> >
> > Have the Mac user double-click on the .txt file in the Finder; It Just
> Works.
>
> +1.
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> The only two ways I can think that this wouldn't just work - if it isn't
> really a plaintext (or rtf) file, or if the user somehow managed to
> re-associate the plaintext type with the script editor.
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> As Jeff said, just double click the file. Otherwise, the long way around
> is Applications > Utilities > TextEdit > File > Open > ...
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:25:44 -0400
> From: Zach Villers <zachvatwork at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Text Editor
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> Isn't macOS a unix? Shouldn't it come with vi or nano? Can check my
> wife's mac in a bit.
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> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017, at 05:27 PM, tom wrote:
> > Anybody have one foot in the Mac world? I sent .txt from my Linux
> > machine to a Mac user running OS Sierra. Does Sierra have a text editor?
> > It does have a script editor, but I told him to leave that alone as he
> > might break his system. I have 10.6.8 on an older MacBook. It has both a
> > text editor and a script editor. The text editor is in utilities on it.
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> > Tom
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:33:08 -0700
> From: Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Text Editor
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> On June 22, 2017 at 21:29:17, Zach Villers (zachvatwork at gmail.com) wrote:
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> Isn't macOS a unix? Shouldn't it come with vi or nano? Can check my
> wife's mac in a bit.
>
> Yes, it does come with those tools out of the box:
>
> $ which vim emacs nano
> /usr/bin/vim
> /usr/bin/emacs
> /usr/bin/nano
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> However, with only Tom's OP to go by, I'd reckon the user in question would
> be completely lost in a terminal.
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> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:23:23 -0700
> From: Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Text Editor
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> On June 22, 2017 at 23:11:01, tom (thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com) wrote:
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> On 06/22/2017 09:33 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:
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> However, with only Tom's OP to go by, I'd reckon the user in question would
> be completely lost in a terminal.
>
> Yeah, He would be lost. OS 10.6.8 has a text editor in Utilities. Where are
> Utilities in OS Sierra? Is there a default word processor in Sierra? If so,
> I could save the document in .rtf or .odt.
>
> My apologies. I looked again. In Sierra (10.12), TextEdit is in
> Applications. I think it used to be in Applications > Utilities.
>
> The default word processor, if you will, is going to be TextEdit.
> Aforementioned caveats aside, there's no a good reason your user shouldn't
> just be able to double click on the file and have it open with TextEdit
> automagically.
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