TextEdit does not do text

[maarten]

I try to keep my nerdy software gripes to a minimum, but every so often my jaw hits the floor with such force that venting becomes mandatory. (unpre-vent-able... ha ha!)

Get this: TextEdit does not offer the option to save a document as Plain Text (.txt). I'm staring here at the Save As dialog in flabbergasted confusion.

Comments

[huruma]

ha ha - love your pun!

[eldan]

You have to switch the format to plain text (from the Format menu) first. This was a relatively recent (X.5 I think, maybe X.4) change, and definitely not a good one. It actually made me switch from TextEdit to Textwrangler, because at a stroke TextEdit lost its convenience advantage.

[dreamerfi]

And when you switch the format to plain text, the save as dialog gives you a list of options that will confuse the heck out of the average user (several types of unicode, "western", and far-east encodings.

This is indeed one jaw-droppingly bad piece of work by Apple.