<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br></div><div><br>On Jun 22, 2017, at 16:47, Jeff Frontz <<a href="mailto:jeff.frontz@gmail.com">jeff.frontz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">TextEdit (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit</a> ) 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)).<div><br></div><div>Have the Mac user double-click on the .txt file in the Finder; It Just Works.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>+1.<div><br></div><div>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.<br><div><br></div><div>As Jeff said, just double click the file. Otherwise, the long way around is Applications > Utilities > TextEdit > File > Open > ...</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>