Filed under: Leopard
Leopard Love: "Go To" in TextEdit
TextEdit doesn't get much love. BBEdit, SubEthaEdit, and so forth grab the spotlight and all the attention. But I'm a TextEdit gal. I love the Emacs-like support and the price tag. For years now, I've resorted to Lorax's textextras to get "go to line". It's critical when you're debugging and you need to check out, for example, line 572.
Enter Leopard. A new standard option in TextEdit allows you to select by line using the same Command-L, I've been using for years. You don't have to use the mouse. Type Command-L, the line number, and and press return.
Sure, the error message for a bad line number is geeky ("Out of bounds line specification") but who cares? Line jump! Joy!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
aptenergy said 1:35PM on 10-29-2007
What about TextWrangler?
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Fritz Laurel said 1:41PM on 10-29-2007
I second that. TextWrangler simply cannot be beaten for the price.
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Matt said 1:48PM on 10-29-2007
Does anyone else find it messed up that TextEdit has autosave but Pages doesn't?
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geochick said 1:49PM on 10-29-2007
My favorite Leopard update that hasn't gotten much press is what they did to Preview you can crop with CMD K and the +/- icons on the interface are nice for zooming in and out. There are a host of other goodies in there that I haven't even tried out yet. Too bad I'm at work now :(
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Galley said 2:12PM on 10-29-2007
This would be useful for extracting URLs to photos on IMDb.
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jzb said 2:19PM on 10-29-2007
What's a Good mac'ified editor that supports vi-like keybindings? The aqua version of Vim on Mac OS X could do with some improvement.
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aptenergy said 2:37PM on 10-29-2007
geochick, Cmd + K works in Tiger.
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Libb said 3:02PM on 10-29-2007
TextEdit is nice for quick edits of stuff that doesn't need the hardcore formatting of Word or Pages. I usually use TextEdit for quick notes to myself or such, Pages for school papers and work documents, and TextMate for my happy-coding-fun-time. (Can't wait to see what Alan the developer has up his sleeve for TM 2.0 now that it's Leopard only... Something tells me it isn't Core Animation-enabled flying text ;) )
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Mo said 4:43PM on 10-29-2007
I don't use TextEdit, but if they could add Cmd+L to Safari (both when viewing text/JavaScript/CSS files, and when viewing the source of a web page), it would make me very happy… although they'd have to make the new Web Inspector toggleable via a status bar icon like FireBug is before my life would be complete.
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Mo said 4:45PM on 10-29-2007
I don't use TextEdit, but if they could add Cmd+L to Safari (both when viewing text/JavaScript/CSS files, and when viewing the source of a web page), it would make me very happy… although they'd have to make the new Web Inspector toggleable via a status bar icon like FireBug is before my life would be complete.
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Bruno said 4:57PM on 10-29-2007
I wouldn't use TextEdit if I were paid to do so. If for no other reason than Apple's NSTextView (which it uses) contains the most ill-conceived and craptastic UI response ever implemented on any computer. No smooth scrolling means no text editing love.
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Tony said 7:13PM on 10-29-2007
TextEdit; Notepad.exe called, it said 'Welcome to 1992'
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Tom said 7:28PM on 10-29-2007
@12: More like Wordpad, really.
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Colin said 6:50AM on 10-30-2007
Nothing beats TextMate for OS X text editors!
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Martin said 10:39AM on 10-30-2007
So TextEdit adds a feature that should have been there from DAY ONE and it's post worthy? I'm not so arrogant that I feel I know what people should and shouldn't write about, but give me a fucking break.
Check this shit: my coffee machine just got an off button. Before I had to unplug that bitch.
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yakov chodosh said 12:35AM on 10-31-2007
can i bitch here about lack of Hebrew support in Pages? and also the iPod? ...great, thanks
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juval said 10:24AM on 11-12-2007
yes, it´s a shame no hebrew is supported...
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