Questions tagged [text]
anything relating to text, including text editors such as TextEdit
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How to force OS X Notes application to lose formatting when I paste text from clipboard?
While I do find Notes.app very useful, especially due to the iCloud integration with iOS counterpart apps, I am very annoyed about the text formatting used by the application.
I just want to be able ...
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How can one save a file as plain text in TextEdit? [duplicate]
I'm not seeing an option to choose plain text encoding (.TXT extension) when saving a file in TextEdit.app in macOS. My documents seem to all be rtf - rich text format.
How can I change this?
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How to use find and replace to replace a character with new line
I have a document, I wants to use the find and replace to convert any period (.) into a new line. I can't seems to of that, in Microsoft word you can input ^ CTRL+p into the replace field. But how do ...
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Enable Quick Look for text files without the .txt extension [duplicate]
Doing Quick Look on .txt files is very convenient (select in Finder and press space).
Is there a way to enable Quick Look for other text files which don't have the .txt extension (e.g., .strings ...
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Mimic Xcode's camelCase selection keyboard shortcuts in OS X
I spend a very large amount of time editing text in Xcode, and I would like maneuvering around text within the rest of the Cocoa Text System to offer an identical experience. There are 3 versions of ...
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Is there a QuickLook preview for plain-text files with unknown extensions? [duplicate]
A similar question was asked here but the answer refers to something called QL Stephen, which only claims to preview files with no extension. I need something that will show previews of files with ...
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Messages app on my Macbook Pro stopped sending to Android
The Messages app on my Macbook Pro (running High Sierra) suddenly stopped sending text messages to Android devices. I can still send texts to Android users from my iPhone without a problem, but when ...
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Customize Quick Look to allow me to view .yml files
I would like to use "space" to preview *.yml files directly out of the finder on Mac OS X.
I think I have to tell finder to launch the text file quick view handler for files with that type and this ...
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Is there a Mac OS X Command Line application that can convert text encodings from one type to another? (Specifically to convert Mac OS Roman to utf8)
I would like to call a command line utility in Mac OS X 10.8 that gives me the ability to convert a text file saved in standard Western Mac OS Roman encoding to the more generic UTF-8.
I will be ...
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How can I globally disable 'Text Replacement'?
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while, so I'm guessing this can only be solved with a console command.
What I want to do is disable 'Text Replacement' everywhere on my Mac.
The ...
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Is there a Mac keyboard shortcut to "Select Current Line"?
I am looking for a keyboard shortcut that selects the full line (i.e., the text of the line) of the blinking caret cursor in any editable, multi-line text field. Nothing more than just this one line ...
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iPhone can send iMessages without a SIM card?
I gave my old iPhone 3GS (iOS 5.0) to a friend, and after removing the SIM card, we noticed a peculiar behavior. My friend is able to send texts via iMessage from the old phone number. Likewise, I can ...
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Mail in Mavericks does not correctly text wrap / no option to view in plain text
This problem has been brought up in the Apple discussion forum, but with no success. It is two related problems that have cropped up in the Mail application in Mavericks (OS X v10.9):
First, there is ...
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How to turn subpixel antialiasing on in macOS 10.14?
In macOS 10.14 Mojave Apple turned the «LCD font smoothing» setting (which turned a subpixel antialiasing on) to «just font smoothing» setting. So now all the text is rendered just antialiased that ...
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Tool to transform text to all caps or lowercase
Is there a system-wide text manipulation app that enables you to select text and convert all letters to upper case or lower case, like a code text editor would?
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