I think of a text editor as a program that edits plain text only. So no formatting at all. But I'm coming from a programming point of view, where code is always in plain text.
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tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 4:50:24 am PDT #20472 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 4:55:38 am PDT #20473 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
the apps above save in plain text, but use multi-markdown.
except scrivener!
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 5:08:29 am PDT #20474 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'd never heard of multi-markdown. Is that what the kids are into these days?
I feel old.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 6:01:51 am PDT #20475 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommy,
I am not sure how old you are, but I bet I'm older than you. If you are younger than ita, then I win!
Multimarkdown is just a language (mostly for writers) that can speed up html language. If you aren't doing a lot of fancy html (or in my case, academic writing that doesn't involve a lot of complicated stuff), MM is wonderful.
It's like the quick edit here.
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 6:08:52 am PDT #20476 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm 47, which makes me older than ita !, at least.
WindSparrow - Jul 12, 2012 7:01:39 am PDT #20477 of 25501
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thanks everybody, and especially le_nubian, for the explanations. On my PowerBook I had mostly been using Text Edit which seems to be a bit of a hybrid. Most of my writing is fan fiction, so the formatting is pretty basic. Bold and italics are helpful but don't always carry through to the sites I post to anyway. I do write the occasional business letter, but that is pretty much it. So maybe all I really need is a text editor. I'm going to look at the ones you mentioned, le_n.
Thanks again!
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 7:42:03 am PDT #20478 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
damn tommy! you have me beat.
but not by much...
Tom Scola - Jul 12, 2012 1:16:53 pm PDT #20479 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The $500,000 purchase price amounts to pennies on the investment dollars that poured into the once popular news aggregation site. Digg raised $45 million over six years from Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and venture firm Greylock Partners.
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 2:20:01 pm PDT #20480 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I haven't been to the digg website in many years.
So it's all my fault.
WindSparrow - Jul 13, 2012 7:52:37 am PDT #20481 of 25501
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So, um, what's the thinking on those iPad accessories packages that include caps for the various and sundry jacks? I have never in my life worried about covering jacks or ports or various other openings in my electronic bobs. Except possibly in AZ during dust storms. Three years from now am I going to be regretting my devil-may-care (and if he does, let him spend the money) attitude?