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text editor

  1. Frantisekj

    Split View text editor

    Hello, Is anyone aware of any simple text editor that would be able show two files at once? I wanna that for fine tuning translations especially subtitles. I was searching like crazy but nothing. It could be some simple code editor. Free is bonus. Thanks a lot
  2. J

    Text replacement outside home folder

    When editing text files in Monterey outside of your home folder (or /usr/local), all TAB occurrences are magically replaced with two-spaces. For example, anything inside /Library/WebServer or the /opt directory. However files saved in a home folder or /usr/local edit correctly. This is driving...
  3. B S Magnet

    Instant, low-overhead text editor in your browser

    Perhaps this is old knowledge for some of you, but it is new to me. I figure I could pass it along to everyone here. By entering the following string in the URL bar of whatever browser you use, you can render the tab/window as a basic, barebones text editor: data:text/html,<html...
  4. S

    iPad Pro Text Edit bug driving me crazy - please help!!

    I have a shiny new iPad Pro 11 (which I’m delighted with) and have been doing some work on PDFs - filling forms using markup and then adding simple text boxs. All was going well until the following day I when back to re-edit the text. When I select the text box and then edit, the text box...
  5. Arqui3D

    Text editor that allows you to use several custom dictionaries?

    Hi! First post here. I've been searching all over the web for something like this: A text editor that allows you to load several custom dictionaries, or word lists, for its spell checker. It doesn't matter if it's Mac or Windows, as I use Bootcamp. My goal is to write content for Spanish...
  6. I

    Editor to print formatted whatsapp message

    Hi everyone, I have lots of short writings in whatsapp (which use bold and italic fonts intensively). I want to edit them in Mac and print them. Does anyone know which application (text editor) which can read whatsapp formatted text properly. Thanks. Isa.