A bug in Lion means Apple's popular TextEdit utility may append the TXT extension to files regardless of their original file types. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

For some silly reason, OS X’s TextEdit app’s default format is rich text. If you prefer plain text, Defaults Write points out that you can easily set that as your default with a Terminal command. All ...

If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

So I sent a plain text document created in TextEdit from my G4 to my Quadra today, only to find the formatting all screwed up when I opened it in SimpleText. I assume this is because Apple has set ...