Comments on: Paying homage to TextEdit

By: Ellen Pall

Ellen Pall — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:07:16 +0000

Yipes! I never even heard of Writeroom or Ommwriter OR Scrivener, not to mention Bean (which I wouldn’t have mentioned cause I never heard of it). Thank you! I shall go forth and find them!

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:35:59 +0000

While you certainly can write a long piece in TextEdit, there are apps better suited to the task. From the top of my head just Google (or Bing) for Writeroom, Ommwriter, Scrivener, Bean…

By: Ellen Pall

Ellen Pall — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:31:21 +0000

I am a novelist. I’ve written many novels on PCs. Now I am trying to jump to a MacBook Pro. Can I write a whole novel is textedit? Pages is WAY WAY too much firepower for what I need, I think.

any info will be a godsend.
THANK YOU!

By: Milind Alvares

Milind Alvares — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:27:49 +0000

@Charlotte: Well there’s obviously some change in the settings.

First of all, there’s no need to highlight a word; just a hover is required. Second, it works in all native applications. Does this still work in apps like Safari and Mail?

By: charlotte

charlotte — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:21:26 +0000

I cannot access TexEdit dictionary. I used to highlight a word, click on control, command + d and it would open. Now I only delete the word that is highlighted. What am I doing wrong?

By: krazzy

krazzy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:54:29 +0000

I like TextEdit too. Even though I have the full iWork ’09 installed on our MacBook Pro I still use TextEdit cause it has all the basic stuff that I usually need.

Having said that OpenOffice.org is an incredibly useful software suite as well. You can’t really complain about something that does 90% of what iWork or MS Office does at 0% of the cost.