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Leopard Love: "Go To" in TextEdit

by Erica Sadun Oct 29th 2007 at 1:30PM

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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juval

yes, it´s a shame no hebrew is supported...

November 12 2007 at 10:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yakov Chodosh

can i bitch here about lack of Hebrew support in Pages? and also the iPod? ...great, thanks

October 31 2007 at 12:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Martin

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.

October 30 2007 at 10:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin

Nothing beats TextMate for OS X text editors!

October 30 2007 at 6:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

@12: More like Wordpad, really.

October 29 2007 at 7:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony

TextEdit; Notepad.exe called, it said 'Welcome to 1992'

October 29 2007 at 7:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bruno

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.

October 29 2007 at 4:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mo

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.

October 29 2007 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mo

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.

October 29 2007 at 4:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill

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 ;) )

October 29 2007 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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