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Notepad is one of the smartest editors available that programmers typically use. If you have installed Notepad, by default the system will not set Notepad as your default editor. Fortunately, you can use settings that are available in Notepad to circumvent this issue. If you always want to open.txt,.xml,.cpp,.c,.sql file. You can change text font, size, color and other basic formatting using the toolbar buttons. If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can use it to quickly format selected text. You can also do more advanced formatting in the Fonts window. In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose Format Font Show Fonts. Convert rich text documents to other formats. With TextEdit, you can open and edit rich text documents created in other word processing apps, including Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. You can also save your documents in a different format, so they’re compatible with. Change the default theme from Dendrobates to Anura. BTW, as a user that use both Mac and Win, I found the way Mac text editors handle drag and drop of files straight. In Windows a dropped file will be opened, and in Mac its filename will be inserted in the current file. I find the later useless (unless one is working with shell scripts).

Convert rich text documents to other formats

With TextEdit, you can open and edit rich text documents created in other word processing apps, including Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. You can also save your documents in a different format, so they’re compatible with other apps.

Create and edit HTML documents

You don’t need a special app to write or edit HTML code—just use TextEdit. You can display HTML documents like you’d see them in a browser, or use TextEdit as a code editor.

Mark up images

You can write or draw on images in your text files using the tools in the Markup toolbar.

To explore the TextEdit User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

TextEdit User Guide

In the TextEdit app, you can set preferences for all new TextEdit documents, and for opening and saving documents.

To change these preferences in the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click New Document or Open and Save.

Note: You can change any document’s format at any time using the Format menu.

New Document options

Option				Description
Format				Rich text: Set the default format to rich text. Rich text allows formatting, such as bulleted lists, that plain text doesn’t. Plain text: Set the default format to plain text. Plain text doesn’t allow text formatting. Wrap to page: Wrap text within the document’s page margins. Otherwise, text wraps to the document’s window size.
Window Size				Set a default window size.
Font				Choose a default font style and size for plain and rich text documents.
Properties				For rich text documents, you can set the document properties by adding the author’s name, the organization name, and the copyright information.
Options				Set default options to check or autocorrect spelling and grammar as you type. See Check spelling and grammar. Show ruler: Select to view the ruler in rich text documents. See Adjust margins and paragraphs. Data detectors: Automatically detect dates, times, and contact information in your documents. See Turn on data detectors. Smart quotes and dashes in rich text documents only: When you don’t want smart quotes and dashes to automatically substitute your straight quotes and double hyphens in plain text or HTML documents. Smart copy/paste: Automatically keep the correct spacing when you copy and paste text in your documents. See Keep the correct spacing when you paste text. Smart quotes: Automatically substitute curly quotation marks for straight quotation marks. To change the smart quote style in a document, choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions. See Change Keyboard Text preferences. Smart dashes: Automatically substitute an em dash (—) for double hyphens (--) in new documents. Smart links: Select to always convert web addresses to clickable links. See Add clickable links automatically to documents. Text replacement: Automatically replace text in new documents. For example, if you type “teh,” it’s converted to “the”. See Replace text and punctuation in documents.
Restore All Defaults				Click to revert all preferences in both “New Document” and “Open and Save” panes to their initial settings.

Open and Save options

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Option				Description
When Opening a File				Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text: Always view the HTML code when opening an HTML file. See Work with HTML documents. Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text: Always view RTF directives when opening an RTF file. See View the RTF directives in RTF files.
When Saving a File				Add “.txt” extension to plain text files: Select to always use the .txt extension when saving a plain text file.
Plain Text File Encoding				When opening or saving plain text files, choose the default text encoding options from the Plain Text File Encoding pop-up menus. See If characters aren’t displayed correctly.
HTML Saving Options				Document type: Set the default document type when saving HTML files. Styling: Set the default type of cascading style sheets (CSS) when saving HTML files. Encoding: Set the default text encoding for saving HTML files. Preserve white space: Select to include code that preserves the white space in your document’s formatted text.
Restore All Defaults				Click to revert all preferences in both “New Document” and “Open and Save” panes to their initial settings.

Mac Text Editor Built In

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