In most single-line text edit fields, pressing ↑ moves the cursor to the start of the line, and pressing ↓ moves the cursor to the end. But in the Messages app, the behaviour is slightly different; it seems to consider 3 positions: the start of the line, something like the last location of the cursor, and the end of the line, and pressing ↑ / ↓ cycles through these (so e.g. pressing ↑ then ↓ returns the cursor to the same position). I can see some logic to this for people who press ↑ or ↓ accidentally and want a quick way back to their old place, but I find it jarring since I'm used to the standard home/end behaviour. Is there a way to configure it? I'm not sure if this is Messages-specific, or something more general (though I haven't seen any other apps show this behaviour). Demonstration of different behaviours (if the video doesn't play, click it to open in a new window; seems Imgur prevents looping gifs):

I downloaded Sublime Text 4107 zip file. Unzipped it in a folder and tried running it using ./subl command but no matter what I try it shows ` > “Sublime Text 15-33-10-536” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should > move it to the Bin. I have read every article available but no luck. Can anyone help me. If anybody want more information tell me comment section. Also if I install Sublime using .dmg file and drag it into Applications folder it works fine.

I want to set the default text editor for Makefiles to something like Atom or Sublime Text to make them easier to open, and so that when I edit remote Makefiles through CyberDuck they will open in one of these editors by default. Typically, I set a default file type's default 'open' app by right clicking -> Get Info -> Open With -> Change All However, every time I try to do this for files called 'Makefile', I get the following error: > An error occurred while changing the application that opens “Makefile” > because not enough information is available. > > Do you want to open “Makefile” with “Sublime Text.app”? Any ideas how to fix this? I am currently on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

I already know that, when editing a text box, if a plus sign (+) appears in the bottom center, then it's warning you that there's more text that you're not seeing, that's fine. And yes, I know how to Cmd-A, resize font, etc. BUT I also seem to recall that you could somehow magic-click or use a hotkey combination that would tell Keynote to automatically resize the text so that you could see it all. I can't seem to find that now, but I'm sure I remember it. I did check and Layout -> Shrink to Fit is already checked/enabled. Questions: - Does anybody remember the hotkey or mouse click that would resize the text automatically, so it was all visible? - Is there maybe some font size limit that the automatic resizing won't go below some value? - Is there some other easy way to edit the text on the slide? I usually do want to reduce the amount of text, but for that I need to temporarily see it all. (beyond Cmd-A functionality) Other Notes: - Using the default "white" template - Keynote version 11.2 on Intel iMac with up-to-date Monterey Please feel free to make other suggestions. Thanks in advance.

I am running MacOS Big Sur 11.7.9. Recently my nano editor stopped displaying text correctly using bash or zsh, and it scrambles text and doesn't properly display text. How can I debug and fix this error? Please see attached imgur video for the problem in action. Things I've tried - Run stty sane -> no change - Opened a Terminal tab with a different profile -> no change - Created a new user account on my Mac -> problem occurs there as well Running the command ls -l /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm* returns: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3258 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1053 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+256color -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1051 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+88color -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 422 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+app -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 418 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+edit -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 420 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+noapp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 404 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pc+edit -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1153 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcc0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 824 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcc1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1205 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcc2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 902 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcc3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1091 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pce2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1011 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcf0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1049 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcf2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2069 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+pcfkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1094 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+r6f2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3268 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+sl -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3296 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+sl-twm -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 464 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm+vt+edit -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3269 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-1002 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3269 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-1003 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3402 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-16color -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1525 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3322 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-256color -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3320 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-88color -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1903 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-8bit -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1799 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-basic -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1535 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-bold -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1551 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-color -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1845 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-hp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3252 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-new -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3268 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-nic -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3232 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-noapp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1501 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3324 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-pcolor -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1301 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1501 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-r6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2021 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-sco -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2105 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-sun -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1983 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-vt220 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 484 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-vt52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2001 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xf86-v32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1991 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xf86-v33 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2001 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xf86-v333 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2207 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xf86-v40 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2221 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xf86-v43 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2255 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xf86-v44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2235 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xfree86 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1981 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-xi -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3260 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1607 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xtermc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1440 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xtermm -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1525 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterms -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2121 Jan 1 2020 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterms-sun My $PATH is: /usr/local/opt/curl/bin:/usr/local/opt/python@3.11/bin:/usr/local/opt/python@3.10/bin:/Users/danran/.local/bin:/Users/danran/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/dfsee/mac/:/usr/local/etc/pki

We have ⌘B to bold, ⌘I to italicise, ⌘U to underline, but we don't (as far as I can tell) have a shortcut to strikethrough selected text in **any** OS X rich editor. I added a keyboard shortcut into System Preferences, but that way doesn't work very consistently. I also tried using TextExpander, but it doesn't support rich text formatting. Has anyone come up with a way to do this?

I've screwed something up with a settings and I cannot go back to the defaults. How to return back to the default view of displaying pages (page under page) instead of having them diagonally or page next to another page ? That's how it looks like rn

I recently moved from a well-configured Ubuntu to Mac. I used Emacs for many years but I am too lazy to re-install it (and re-configure it). One of the useful features in Emacs shell is that you can simply move the cursor around the output text using the arrow keys, select and edit - as if it was a standard text editor. Is there any terminal with that feature in OS X? I have tried iTerm2, which supports smart search and selections, but I couldn't find exactly what I want - some keyboard-shortcut that will turn the current tab into "text editor" mode. Editing the text is not important - I just want to be able to select text without touching the mouse, i.e. by moving the cursor around using the arrow keys (left, right, up, down), and select by holding shift. Yes, I know about the great ... | pbcopy trick - it's awesome in other use cases.

Is there any way I can make it so one specific app always shows up in the "Open With" menu, in addition to all of the default options? I want to be able to right-click on a file, and in addition to seeing all of the normal apps that open it, I also want to be able to choose something like BBEdit, so I can also view the raw code. Maybe the approach should be reversed, is there a way I can tell the system that BBEdit is a valid app to open *every* file type? This would be a very handy, time-saving mod.

A time-saving feature I often used while editing large text files (the kind used for batch processes of data exchanges, aka, "flat files" for feeds between multiple systems) was Notepad++'s extended Find/Change function where you can specify certain characters (such as tab, space, line feed, carriage return) in both the Find function and the Change function. This is the detail on how it works: > Open the find/replace dialog. At the bottom will be some Search mode > options. Select "Extended (\n \r \t \0 \x...)" In either the Find > what or the Replace with field entries, you can use the following > escapes: > > - \n new line (LF) > - \r carriage return (CR) > - \s space character > - \t tab character This would make it very easy to edit lists of information, changing files from comma to tab delimited, or files with spaces between into comma delimited, as well being easy to go from spaces to tabs (or visa versa). Anyone happen to know which text editors running on Mac OS have this feature (or have plugins to add this functionality)? ---- edit/update, 2024: I don't know if it's inattention on my part, or a new feature (doubt the latter, tbh); I've just found the find/replace in Visual Studio Code allows for RegEx. To activate it, use the ".*" button in the document level search bar. For more on RegEx, I find this q+a to be useful: https://superuser.com/questions/962323/replace-with-a-newline

I am trying to open a relatively large XML file (50mb) but my Mac just won't open it: No errors though, just been waiting for almost 10 minutes but nothing happens. Tried using **TextEditor, Xcode** Any other suggestions?

I just became aware of what I feel are 2 hidden macOS Monterey keyboard shortcuts when messing around in the Mac Notes app. Control+v scrolls down a nondeterministic number of lines. Control+y pastes from the system's clipboard I find control+v for scrolling down very useful to get to the bottom of something. These shortcuts are not in any official Apple documentation online that I checked notably https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 and https://support.apple.com/guide/notes/keyboard-shortcuts-and-gestures-apd46c25187e/mac Does anybody know where these shortcuts are documented so I could find more like these?

Setting up a new MacBook. I like to use pico, so I always remember to add export EDITOR=nano alias pico=nano alias pcio=nano alias pioc=nano to my .profile. But I'm still missing _something_ that I used to have, because whenever I launch nano with multiple command-line arguments, instead of opening each file in sequence, it only opens the first filename. nano x.txt y.txt # edits x.txt and then quits! This isn't how it behaved on my old machine. What's the fix? (Is there an environment variable to make nano open multiple files?)

We recently had a meltdown of a Tomcat server, that produced an 82.7 GB "catalina.out" log file, which I saved for forensic analysis. What macOS editors can open monster text files without consuming 80 GB of RAM or causing 15 minute freezes?

I have configured this in the past, and sometimes it works...or not with various linting tool printouts. For example, some file output might be:

foobar/thisorthat/thing.py:123

And if it prints out on the command line, a [CMD] + [MOUSE_CLICK] will open that file as if it is a hyperlink in the configured text editor default for that filetype. Other times, the OS will interpret the string as a hyperlink and try to open it in the browser window (this is not the goal). My question amounts to: how would I modify the output string:

# full question
foobar/thisorthat/thing.py:123

# simplification that still gets it done
foobar/thisorthat/thing.py

So that the [CMD]+[MOUSE_CLICK] mechanic opens the file with the text editor rather than the browser?

I am using the Sublime editor on Mac. But I have to manually save the file. And when the editor is closed it asks whether to save the file or not. Is there a way to make it behave like Notepad++? **Desired Behavior:** Sublime Text should close without asking anything and when reopened it should preserve the open texts files **Things I tried:** Opened Settings and added hot_exit: true but this didn't have any effect. The following pic shows the settings:

I use files with various extensions, some of which are even prefixed, like "c3.filename", "s.filename", etc. On clicking a file, I want it to open in my default text editor (emacs) if no specific application is selected. As of now, I have to select open-with on right-click every time I want to open the file in the text editor. I could not a find a satisfactory answer for it in the questions/answers posted earlier for extensionless files and using automator.

I think the main usage of textedit is to edit RTF file as that is the default format textedit uses to save files. But even Microsoft doesn't seem to use RTF format anymore, "Microsoft has discontinued enhancements to the RTF specification" and as "In a 2020 insider build of Windows 10, WordPad is modified to include advertising notifications for the Office web apps as an alternative." I think one use case for RTF file is for **cross-platform sharing**, but we have other file formats for that (pdf, md). BTW, I always find the name "**R**ich **T**ext **F**ormat" is a bit misleading. Any text editors online now have some kind of so-called **Rich Text** Format support, e.g. as I am writing this question here, but they are NOT the rtf format we were talking about when using textedit (or WordPad on Windows). So what is use case for TextEdit in 2023?

I've been using Typora as a Markdown editor when it was free (during beta), but now it's pay for use and I want to find an equivalent, free (preferably open source) tool. **My requirements**: - free (preferably open source) - rather than a separate editing and preview pane, I want the editing to happen in the same pane in which the Markdown code is rendered, i.e., WYSIWYG. This is what Typora does - support for drawing tables, bulleted/numbered lists, code fences, import images, etc. Basically, the same features as the post editor on Stack Exchange, but WYSIWYG instead of separate editing/preview panes - rendering of math formulas - runs on Monterey **Research**: I googled around a bit and I found the following; - Mou app seemed to have been widely recommended in the past, but it's not being developed anymore (and anyway it cannot be downloaded, since the site is down) - MacDown is active, but it has separated editing and rendering panes - similarly for VS Code

For example LaTex, or any other way to show mathematical symbols in TextEdit ? It's possible to use math symbols in LibreOffice and Microsoft Word, maybe the same is possible in TextEdit ?