Mac OS X Txt editor

March 31, 2022 5:28 PM

Not Libre Office or Pages, freely available online.

Please suggest for Mojave.

posted by firstdaffodils to Computers & Internet (13 answers total)

What do you want to do in it? Because I use code editors for plain text, but a lot of code editors are a lot.
posted by clew at 5:31 PM on March 31, 2022

Simple text editing or comps for invoices, Microsoft Word style. This is all.
posted by firstdaffodils at 5:40 PM on March 31, 2022

When I see "Txt editor" I think of something that only handles plain text documents that contain nothing but raw text (like a README.txt file), but when I see "Microsoft Word style" I think of something that can do some formatting, like fonts, italics, and text size. Which are you looking for?
posted by dfan at 6:07 PM on March 31, 2022

Is Google Docs an option?

If you could say a bit about why not Libre Office or Pages that could make it easier to make recommendations that don't feel like just a total stab in the dark.
posted by aubilenon at 6:12 PM on March 31, 2022

No, no Google docs. Something non cloud based. I actually really like Pages but it's not available for this verison of Mojave.
posted by firstdaffodils at 6:17 PM on March 31, 2022

Have you tried TextEdit which is on your Mac already? It's pretty easy and lightweight, but can handle .rtf and can import/export from common office packages. If that lacks what you want, maybe check out Atom, which is cross-platform, highly customizable, and also relatively light compared to the deep, ancient, bizarre world of heavyweight text editors.
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:17 PM on March 31, 2022

This seems remarkably obvious, but what is missing from TextEdit (built into MacOS) that you are lacking?
posted by General Malaise at 6:18 PM on March 31, 2022

Or, on lack of preview, what SaltySaltcid said.
posted by General Malaise at 6:18 PM on March 31, 2022

If you actually want Pages, this might work.
posted by General Malaise at 6:31 PM on March 31, 2022

Really, I just want pages.

I'll try it!

I am sometimes a lazy editor, who likes to manipulate templates. This is all, really.
posted by firstdaffodils at 6:42 PM on March 31, 2022

BBEdit. I switched to Ubuntu from OSX, and that's the only thing I really miss.
posted by bricoleur at 8:41 PM on March 31, 2022

Seconding BBedit for plain text.

For RTF, there is the somewhat obscure Bean, found on the App Store.
posted by yclipse at 5:46 AM on April 1, 2022

Bean is not available from the App Store. Rather, you can download it from here. Bean is a rich text editor (RTF) that runs on Mojave. (Source: I'm the developer.)
posted by jabah at 6:19 AM on April 2, 2022