In Atom, I finally had to call Bart to find out how the heck to get it to recognize that I was writing JavaScript and so to do the correct syntax highlighting for me. You can choose from a variety of built in themes, change the default colors of those themes, and even create your own themes.īefore I go on with what else I like about CotEditor, note that all of Allister’s original requirements have been soundly met. For example, under Appearance, you can set the default font, size and color, the line height and whether to highlight the current line. In my experience, like with Atom, the preferences are arcane and not very clear, but CotEditor is laid our really well. A quick trip to CotEdit Preferences shows a plethora of settings that are actually easy to follow. Next up is being able to control the font and background colors. On first launch, it opened in a blank window.
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He suggested CotEditor which is available for free in the Mac App Store. Trevor Drover won this small but evidently important challenge (at least in my opinion).
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Allister is terribly clever and figured out how to launch a saved document from within Alfred that has his settings but I’m not sure I want to go that far for this task.
While you can change the font to what you want, it sadly doesn’t remember that choice for new documents. This looks so beautifully simple I thought it was going to meet all of Allister’s requirements. Rob Rait suggested a very simple $0.99 Mac App Store app called Notepad. Worth a look if you’ve got $15 and you’re looking for a scriptable text editor. It looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while though with the last release talking about Yosemite. He explained that it’s highly scriptable with an interface to Automator. George from Tulsa suggested an app called Tex-Edit from Trans-Tex Software. Glad Kenneth reminded us about nvALT though, it’s back in the rotation of my useful apps. However, it doesn’t meet this very niche need that so many of us have – just open up in a blank screen so I can paste AND be able to see what I pasted in a format of my choosing. Brett has really been bringing it into the fold for Markdown fanatics so that’s cool. One of its most powerful features is search – which is oddly where you also type the title of new notes.
It’s a really sweet tool that lets you save notes that sync flawlessly (and always have) between devices. nvALT is a spinoff of Notational Velocity. I haven’t used nvALT in ages, so I fired it back up. Kenneth Taylor jumped in with the suggestion of nvALT from Brett Terpstra. A handy feature for sure, but we’re looking for something we can launch and hit post, and not save. I’m not sure that one fits the requirement because it has a tendency to open with the last thing you were working on. Knightwise suggested the text editor Atom which Bart and I have talked a lot about on the show for programming. It irritates the daylights out of me that TextEdit doesn’t open with a blank page, AND I hate the spelling because it means Spotlight is always confused on the first 5 letters whether I want TextEdit or TextExpander. Immediately a whole bunch of people jumped in with “I have the same question!” I was amongst the people who piled on with the same question. Ideally I should be able to set a monospaced font and choose foreground and background colours and size, and it should remember those. TextEdit keeps asking me to create new documents and the default view is too small. Allister Jenks posted this question:Īny suggestions for a very simple notepad for macOS which launches quickly with an open window/document? I want somewhere I can quickly paste some text for reference, but rarely want to keep it. Let me give you a great example from this week. The other thing that’s great is that sometimes someone asks a question (dumb or otherwise) and we discover that lots of us had the same question. I love to help people but having more people answering questions is always better. There’s so many reasons to love these communities, not the least of which for me is that you guys can go in there and solve each others’ problems. We have both so you get to choose where you want to play.
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