Haxial Textedit For Mac

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1. Haxial Textedit For Mac
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Haxial TextEdit 1.420. File size: 251.79 KB. This text editor handles plain text files. Published by: www.haxial.com.

I have a weakness for text-editing applications. There must be at least two dozen text editors available for the Mac, and probably more than that. I've sampled of fair few of them, and they range from mediocre to superb. In my estimation, the cream of the crop are Tom Bender's shareware and, which comes in both commercial software and a feature-reduced lite freeware version.

The Text Edit replacement for SimpleText in OS X is a pretty decent basic text editor as well. Most text editors are variations on the same basic set of functions, with emphasis on particular features that the developer has chosen to concentrate on. Pepper, for example, is a favorite of programmers. BBEdit has extensive HTML markup capabilities, and even BBEdit Lite has a remarkable surge and replace engine. Tex Edit Plus focuses on text cleaning and manipulation, and has the best AppleScript implementation I've encountered in any program of any sort. Tex Edit Plus and BBEdit's are so good that I sometimes wonder why anyone else bothers, but it seems that there's a new shareware text editor introduced every couple of weeks. However, the newest kid on the block really is distinctive, both because of its striking looks and also thanks to some genuinely innovative features.

Is a simple, freeware text editor that edits plain text files in Mac (OS X or classic), DOS/Windows, and Unix formats. Haxial TextEdit 1.000 looks like no text editor application you've ever seen before, unless, perhaps you have been into hacking the GUI with Kaleidoscope. The default is colored text on a black background, but you can customize Haxial Text Edit using its color settings panel to suit your personal tastes and imagination, or choose from a dozen supplied themes cataloged in a pulldown menu. The color schemes are a bit loud, but I find several of them quite attractive. You can also download extra Color Scheme files from, or you can make your own Color Scheme using the Color Scheme Editor, which you also download from the Haxial website. There are also four font choices, all sans serif and rather bland. A Rename command shows a window that allows you to enter a new name for the open file.

There is also a Find/Replace function. Find: Shows a window which allows you to find (and optionally replace) text in the file (explained further ahead in this documentation). Enter 'Find' Text: Puts the selected text into the Find window. Replace & Find Next: After using 'Find Next', you might use this command to replace that text with the Replace text that is in the Find window, and then it finds the next occurrence. One of the innovations I mentioned is how you access the settings. The Haxial window interface, aside from the arresting colors, is actually a model of clean simplicity. There is a title bar, which contains the file name and just four buttons - a close button in the usual place, and a wider button just to its right, which toggles a menu containing all program commands.

This is very slick. A Zoom Button expands the window to display all of its contents. The fourth button toggles another cool feature. When you click it or double-click on a Haxial window's title bar, instead of windowshading, the window collapses to what Haxial calls a dock.

If you have more than one Haxial document open an collapsed it will stack in the dock. When you hold down the control/command key, then hit the asterisk key (the '.'

key) on the numeric keypad, a popup grid appears showing you a map of every character that can be used. Click one to insert it into the text.

You can access special characters and letters with diacritical marks this way. Unfortunately, Haxial TextEdit also has some shortcomings. It does not support drag-and-drop text (although you can drag text from other applications into it).

An even more glaring omission is that command-Z does not work for undo (although it appears in the File menu), and response to other commands was flaky. Some of this may be version 1 (or 1.000 in this case) bugginess, but it limits Haxial TextEdit's usefulness. I also discovered that the Scrollability auto-scrolling utility I use in OS 9 doesn't work with it either. There are no text-cleaning tools and no formatting options. It is a very basic text editor in terms of function.

Rename: Shows a window which allows you to enter a new name for this file. If you proceed, the name of the file on disk and the editor window are changed to the name you entered. Find: Shows a window which allows you to find (and optionally replace) text in the file (explained further ahead in this documentation). Find Next: Starting at the insertion point or selection, this finds the next occurrence of the text that is in the Find window. Enter 'Find' Text: Puts the selected text into the Find window. Replace & Find Next: After using 'Find Next', you might use this command to replace that text with the Replace text that is in the Find window, and then it finds the next occurrence.

I tried Haxial Text Edit in both OS 9.2.2 and OS X, and it works the same in both, following neither's appearance conventions, although the 'Tropical Water' color scheme is somewhat harmonious with OS X Aqua. This is a fun little application. It isn't going to wean me away from Tex Edit Plus, but it deserves recognition for the outside-the-box thinking that has gone into it. Still more a curiosity and interface design exercise than a useful application, it's a small download (c. 300K) so there's no reason not to give it a try. Included is a very good PDF manual.

System Requirements. Mac OS X (10) or better. Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib 1.3.1 or better. MS Windows 95 or better Join us on, follow us on or, or subscribe to our Charles Moore has been a freelance journalist since 1987 and began writing for Mac websites in May 1998. His column was a regular feature on MacOpinion, he is news editor at and a columnist at. If you find his articles helpful, Links for the Day. Mac of the Day:, introduced 1996.03.20.

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TextEdit is a free word processor that has long been included as part of Macintosh operating systems (it was originally created for the operating system and came to Apple as part of the company’s of NeXT and its software, which would soon become the foundation of OS X). Despite its relatively basic interface, TextEdit has grown into a powerful application that can easily handle most simple word processing requirements.

TextEdit is able to offer these capabilities thanks to robust support for rich text formatting, which allows users to change fonts, sizes, colors, and more — in essence, the bulk of what most consumers think of when they picture more advanced word processing applications such as. TextEdit offers powerful rich text formatting options But sometimes it’s best to use TextEdit Plain Text Mode, which eliminates all formatting and, you guessed it, produces only plain text. This can be useful for removing the formatting from copied text, working with code, or reducing the complexity and file sizes of documents that don’t need the benefits of rich text formatting. Convert Rich Text to Plain Text in TextEdit TextEdit opens a new document in rich text mode by default, but you can easily convert a document to plain text at any time. To do so, make sure the document you wish to convert is open and selected, then go to Format Make Plain Text in the TextEdit menu bar. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-T. You’ll get a confirmation box warning you that making a document plain text will remove all formatting; make sure you heed it carefully.

If you select OK, everything except for your document’s text will be removed. This includes custom fonts, font sizes and styles, colors, bold, italicized, and underlined formatting, embedded images, and hyperlinks. The result will be clean, simple, plain text. Converting a document to plain text removes all formatting You can always convert a TextEdit plain text document back to a rich text document, but that only applies to new formatting; you won’t get your original formatting back. So, with this in mind, make sure you really want to convert from rich text to plain text, and make a backup copy of the document if you’re not completely sure.

Use Plain Text by Default in TextEdit If you’re a budding programmer or blogger and you want a plain text environment to write code or HTML, you’ll likely want to use TextEdit plain text mode almost exclusively. Instead of switching each new document to plain text mode manually using the steps above, why not set TextEdit to open in plain text mode by default? To use plain text by default in TextEdit, go to TextEdit Preferences in the menu bar. On the New Document tab, select Plain Text in the Format section.

You don’t even need to close the preference window to initiate the change. As soon as you click the Plain Text button, all new TextEdit windows will open in Plain Text Mode. Alternatively, of course, you can go back to this preference window and select Rich Text instead if you ever want to switch back to rich text by default. Of note, you can also use this preference window to set other useful default options, such as enabling or disabling text wrap, the default font for both plain and rich text documents, and the default size of new TextEdit windows. If you ever make too many changes and want to revert to the original configuration settings, just click Restore All Defaults at the bottom of the preferences window. There are many powerful third party apps dedicated to plain text and coding on the Mac — options like, and come to mind — but TextEdit is free, always available, and quite capable of handling all the basics.

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By properly navigating the appropriate uses for rich and plain text, TextEdit should be your first stop for plain text editing in OS X. Want news and tips from TekRevue delivered directly to your inbox? Sign up for the TekRevue Weekly Digest using the box below.

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