
Of course, for any advanced text editing needs, you’ll want to step up to an app like TextWrangler or BBEdit, two excellent choices for code and raw text editing, or an app like Pages or Word for word processing and report creation. TextEdit is really an under appreciated an unloved app in OS X, and it can serve many more functions than people give it credit for, able to function as a basic word processor, quick outliner, even working as a decent HTML source viewer that’s light weight. That also means anything pasted into a new empty TextEdit file will have formatting pulled out automatically, without having to use any of the tricks to strip the styling from pasted text, and without having to convert an existing RTF to a plain old TeXT from the menu options. It also simplifies the TextEdit appearance a bit by removing the formatting option buttons across the top of an open file window. If you are looking for a replacement of Notepad++ for macOS, chances are you must have heard of Sublime Text. That’s it, now anytime you hit Command+N or launch a new TextEdit file, it will default to be a plain text file. Check the box next to “Plain text” to set all new documents to automatically default to be plain txt files.Discover additional software: Test new software that are waiting to be discovered in the downloader. Advantages of the Install Manager: Malware protection informs you if your download has installed additional unwanted software.

